[windup-dev] Features for Discussion

[Brad Davis]

I'd like to have the following features, but wanted to get everyone's feedback.

1) The ability to read in effort from the XML files.

User Story: User runs Windup report and doesn't agree with the effort estimate.  They would like to change the effort for a Java rule and rerun Windup, but aren't technical enough to recompile Windup.
Proposed Solution: Having a utility that we could use to easily look up a property from the Windup XML configuration would be a great solution for this.  That way, it makes it easy for people to modify the effort.


2) The ability to override and disable rules from the XML.

User Story: A Java rule is not providing anticipated output and needs to be excluded from the report.  
Proposed Solution: Have a simple registry of disabled rules in the XML, where the qualified Java class is provided that needs to be disabled / skipped.


Brad Davis
Senior Manager, Red Hat Consulting
Email: bdavis at redhat.com | c: 980.226.7865 | http://www.redhat.com