Ricky Zhou (rickyz)
Jonathan Yu (jsyu)

Web Apps Project Proposal

We plan to build a code review tool for developers.  This tool will integrate
with the developer's git repository by adding a git hook.  Our web application
will allow users to request other users to review their code.  Users given
permission will have the ability to add line by line annotations and reviewers
can accept commits/request changes as they see fit.  Thus, our model will keep
track of users, reviews, and repositories.  We will have tables for users,
projects, review requests, and commits under review.  We plan to use the
PostgreSQL database for our database needs.  Each user will have his/her own
remote repository on our disk to which he/she would push.  Users will either
submit commits through a command-line tool that hooks into our web application
or by simply pushing to their remote repository.  We hope to leverage the data
from this application to analyze developer productivity, developer code
acceptance rate, average code review process length.  We hope that this
application will revolutionize our development/review cycle to be agile.  At
the moment, we are still debating amongst using the Snap framework for Haskell
or Pyramid/Django for Python or SML on Stilts, depending on the availability of
git bindings.  We are still modifying our design in the interest of optimizing
the user experience by analyzing the workflow from the perspective of both
developers and system administrators.