Idea: a new tool for peer reviews and commenting

Hello,

I had an idea about a new subversion property for making peer reviews
and collaborative
development easier. The idea is not specific to TortoiseSVN, but maybe
it could be tried out with it.

The basic idea is quite simple. When a person is doing a peer review
(coding review, some graphic review, schematic review etc..) he wants
to write down his comments about the inspected document to the author
of the file. He writes his comments as a property to that file using
some editor. In the simplest case, it could be for example a text
editor that supports this property commenting. Now, when the author of
that file updates his working copy, he gets the comment-properties to
him, and when opens the file in editor, can see the comments and react
to them.

The property could be something as simple as:
"tsvn:comment_N", with value "X,Y; comment text"
where the N is the number of comment and X,Y specifies the location of
the comment
inside the file. For text file, the location could be the row and
column, for graphics file, the coordinates from the origo and so on.

Well how does this relate to TortoiseSVN? A new tool, TortoiseComment
or similar could be created. The user interface could be something
like the TortoiseMerge, but at the first phase, you could add, remove
and edit comments on only plain text files. Of course, if this gets
more popular, other editors (like emacs, vi or even some commercial
ones) could pick this up.

Any comments?

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Jarmo Torvinen
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