SCM Activity Plugin

Compatibility matrix

- tested
- added and tested
- added, but not tested in real-life
- tested, but not working
- not implemented

Description / Features

This plugin collects and reports information from SCM.

SCM Metrics

Dashboard widget

Blame

Real life examples

To see a real life examples, you can browse following projects Nemo:

• Git - Sonar
• Subversion - Sonar Plugins
• CVS - Java Calendar Tools

Usage & Installation

1. Install from Update Center or download the JAR into the directory /extensions/plugins/
2. Restart Sonar
3. Set proper scm tag within your pom.xml (see SCM URL Format)
   Example:

   <scm>
     <connection>scm:svn:http://svn.codehaus.org/sonar-plugins/trunk/scm-activity</connection>
     <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.codehaus.org/sonar-plugins/trunk/scm-activity</developerConnection>
     <url>http://svn.sonar-plugins.codehaus.org</url>
   </scm>
   

   Or you can use Project Setting - SCM URL.
   Or specify it via property sonar.scm-activity.url.
4. Go to Global/Project Settings
   1. Enable plugin. This plugin disabled by default, because can dramatically increase analysis time of your project
   2. Specify User (sonar.scm-activity.user.secured) and Password (sonar.scm-activity.password.secured) if needed; if specified then developerConnection will be used, otherwise connection
5. Launch a new quality analysis and the metrics will be fed

Known problems and limitations

Subversion "Server certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted"

Add following to .subversion/servers:

[global]
ssl-authority-files = /path/certificate.crt
ssl-trust-default-ca = yes

CVS anonymous access not working "org.apache.maven.scm.ScmException: password is required."

Try to set empty password for repository in .cvspass. For example :

/1 :pserver:anonymous@javacaltools.cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/javacaltools A

Changelog

Release 1.2

See [Sonar 2.7 Upgrade Notes]

Release 1.1

Release 1.0

Release 0.2

Release 0.1