several sources of the same kind to a single project

[davidediruscio]

This was already raised during a discussion with @creat89 and @borisbaldassari

In the current state, 1 SCAVA project = 1 mailing list + 1 forum + 1 issue tracker + 1 ...
It is a one-to-one relationship between the registered project and source of the same kind.

The more I am thinking about it, the more I'm convinced that the ability to have "multiple sources" attached to a single project is something useful as it is a pretty common scheme to consider a project as a "group" of resources, for instance a combination of :

• several mailing lists (usually, some of "users", "news",
  "dev"... etc)
• several issue trackers (whenever there are several VCS repos which happens frequently in GitHub/GitLab)

As a matter of example. If you take the project "XWiki" , it has the following sources:

JIRA: https://jira.xwiki.org/ (dozens of projects here)
Git repos in the Org : https://github.com/xwiki/ at least 2 of them are critical for the project

At this point as an end user, even if I get to add ~50 SCAVA projects to match the most interesting JIRA projects and both git repos, I would have to manage the same amount of tasks in SCAVA.
Then I suppose it means the same amount of endpoints to be accessed from the REST API for the various tool to collect the values.

It's a room for improvement I guess.

Regards,

[davidediruscio]

@borisbaldassari : I realised per your recent screenshots in crossminer/scava#346 that it's possible to create a scava project with several sources... this, 6 months later !
Indeed, in the "create project" form you can click the button several several times...
Are you using the API to do that ? Are you providing an array to /projects/create ?

[davidediruscio]

Hi @mhow2!
I'm using the import eclipse project feature, so I've no idea how to do it through the webui/api..
As a sidenote, I do have the opposite problem: we can afford only one git repo in our case (perf issues) so I need to remove some of the defined repos so only one of them remains..

[davidediruscio]

I do have the opposite problem

😆 OK, now I understand. On my side, when I need more control on the properties of a project, I'm using /projects/create and I'm passing the related JSON structure from a config file https://github.com/crossminer/third-party-rest-clients/blob/master/provision-projects-list.json.dist, see the scavaMeta node. The content of this node is exactly what's the scava API end point mentioned expects. Cheers!