Well, put simply, it is everything we want
http://community.roxen.com/developers/cvs/ to be,
or rather to become. The community.roxen.com CVS browser in use today (april
2001) may be a pretty neat piece of work, but it is not very a very friendly
piece of code to maintain, and it definetely has its share of shortcomings. The
idea at the heart of Code Librarian is to rebuild it, considering from the very
start the lessons we learned over time from building the old CVS browser, and
designing the next incarnation with openness and extensibility in mind. And, of
course, to have a lot of fun in doing so!
Presently, Code Librarian is a pet project of mine that I work with on my
spare time for the fun of it, not something Roxen Internet Software endorses,
sponsors or claims ownership to. It is not unlikely that, in the future, Roxen
will indeed express interest in the project and then choose to buy rights to
distribute and continue its development, under other licenses too, not all
unlike the sitation with Pike today. Other contributors than myself are highly
welcome to contribute to the code, design and, certainly not least, user base of
Code Librarian.
Code Librarian will start out as a set of Roxen 2.2 modules written in Pike
7.2. Conceptual goals include an open, extendable, multi-purpose, reusable
design that not only applies to CVS browsing, but that easily lends itself to
mostly anything you might think up that should be read or browsed against a time
axis; your personal diary, incoming mail, news, events in a project - or even as
exotic things as checkins to a CVS repository! ;-)
Although based on Roxen WebServer and intended to run on any WebServer 2.2
out there, to some extent features of Roxen Platform (primarily Access Control
is of interest) will be used, when present - I do not intend to invent the
wheel, when there is already one that works perfectly, and indeed, I am not even
allowed to reinvent wheels that would compete with Roxen Internet Software
products, as stated by my employment contract.
/ Johan Sundström
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The Code Librarian
The author, Johan Sundström
<jhs@roxen.com>
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