At Kognition we make extensive use of Gemini for our issue tracking and as a lightweight project management tool. For source control we use Subversion. Half way through a project last year we had the bright idea of seeing if we could get the two working together. We developed two time-saving utilities for our internal use. We've had some interest from people wanting to achieve the same thing, so we're giving them out to the community.

Please note that these projects are basically just hacks we whipped up in a short amount of time - they are set up for us to use internally so will require some modification for your use, specifically you will need to use your own Gemini access code and WS URL. There may be other things as well...

The first was an extension to the MS Exception Management Application Block that handles all our unhandled exceptions in our smart client apps, presents the user with an option to report the error as a bug, and automatically creates the bug report in Gemini complete with stack traces. This was achieved by making use of the Gemini Web Service API.

The second was developed when we wanted to have a better audit trail of our bug fixes - especially when we discovered we had regressed old issues The tool is a C# command line app that we install in the post-commit hook directory of our SVN server. It gets invoked automatically by SVN when a dev commits any files. If the comment includes a specially formatted string representing a bug ID (#nnn), we invoke the SVN command line tool to query the comment and the changed files, and then we format them nicely and use the Gemini WS to append a comment to the issue.

Not really much to them at all, as all the hard stuff has already been done for us by the lovely folks working on Gemini and SVN

Again, if anyone wants to clean these tools up and make them a bit more generic they are more then welcome to.

SvnGeminiCommenter.zip (15.87 KB)

ExceptionManagement.zip (81.93 KB)

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