Codestriker FOR LINUX

Codestriker project is an open-sourced web application which supports online code reviewing. Traditional document reviews are supported, as well as reviewing diffs generated by an SCM (Source Code Management) system and plain unidiff patches.

There are integration points with CVS, Subversion, Clearcase, Perforce, Visual SourceSafe, and Bugzilla. There is a plug-in architecture for supporting other SCMs and issue tracking systems.

Using Codestriker for your reviews minimizes paperwork, ensures that issues, comments, and decisions are recorded in a database, and provides a comfortable workspace for actually performing code inspections.

An optional highly-configurable metrics subsystem allows you to record code inspection metrics as a part of your process.

Codestriker is written in Perl, and runs on all of the major platforms and browsers, and is licensed under the GPL.

Installation Instructions

• Unpack the Codestriker distribution into a suitable location.


• Configure the distribution based on your system specifications.


• For UNIX distribution, follow these commands:
  
  
  
  • % mkdir /var/www/codestriker
  
  
  • % cd /var/www/codestriker
  
  
  • % tar zxvf /from/installed/location/codestriker-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
  
  
  • % chown -R apache.apache /var/www/codestriker/codestriker-X.Y.Z
  
  
  
  


• For Windows, unzip the Codestriker distribution into a suitable location under c:program files or c:codestriker.


• Edit the codestriker.conf configuration file to reflect the settings on your site. Follow the examples provided to set appropriate values.

The file is in Perl syntax, so lines starting with a '#' indicate a comment.

For further details, visit the publisher's website: David Sitsky.