Re: StarTeam Plugins

Hi Paul,

This kind of thing seems pretty standard.  You can submit patches for
documentation, or code.

http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/contributions.html

<http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/contributions.html>Having used
CruiseControl and StarTeam, it would be nice to lay some ghosts to rest!

Julian.

On 18 October 2010 03:51, Paul Coste <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a StarTeam expert of over 12 years, and an experienced Java developer,
> and would like to propose some enhancements to your StarTeam plugin.  I am
> not sure the best way to go about this, but I would appreciate the
> opportunity to post code changes to the community.  The following is the
> list of proposed changes:
>
> 1) Add the code ClientApplication.setName("CruiseControlPlugin
> <version.number>") during initialization of the plugin.  This will cause
> this string to be the client identifier in the StarTeam application log
> file.  Otherwise the plugin shows as "Unknown Application."  This is very
> important from a standardization and administration perspective when there
> are many teams using StarTeam and we want to know who is using what kind of
> plugin.  This is also important in StarTeam 2009 and above, in order to
> conform with the new client connection control feature, which can block
> logins based on client name, SDK version, etc.  (This particular function
> call is supported all the way back to version 5.3, I believe, although I
> don't know how far back you need to go anyway, since current support for
> StarTeam only goes back to version 2006.)
>
> 2) I would like to address the documentation which states that the Jar file
> is external and not freely available.  This was true until several months
> ago; now the new company Micro Focus (which bought Borland) has released
> StarTeam Express edition which is free to up to 10 users, and for which the
> SDK Jar file is included fully functional.  This may actually put the
> StarTeam plugin back into the standard library of plugins distributed as
> binary, since the SourceForge team will be able to compile the library.
>
> 3) The documentation states that the StarTeam plugin is based on the
> command-line interface.  If this is true, the newest command-line interface
> now supports encrypted (i.e. obfuscated) external password files, which is a
> preferred way to operate, so that developers do not store clear text
> passwords in their build scripts or properties files, allowing these files
> to be safely stored in source control without compromising security.  I
> would like to add this as a new feature.
>
> Please let me know how I can contribute.  For my company I plan on making
> custom modifications, for item #1 and #3, but these should be included as a
> general enhancement to the community if possible.
>
> Thank You,
> Paul Coste
>
>
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