Finally after what seems like nearly 2 years development, Cenqua has released their new product entitled ‘Crucible‘ that supports online peer code reviews.  I’ve yet to try it personally but the screencast looks very promising.  My only hesitation at this point would be the mass instability we’ve had integrating the underlying product Fisheye. I’ve run into alot of difficulties getting the product to startup and complete its inital repository scan when working on large repositories with extensive history.  Still, I partly blame that on the immaturity of the product.  Fisheye has now be around for several years and appears to be stabilizing quit nicely.

To note, one key problem I often ran into was linux reporting a ‘Too many open files” exception.  Fixing this is simply upping the limits for the user running the fisheye app. 

To find out the user limits:

ulimit -a

In any event, my hopes are to test out the crucible extension in the next few months to see if we finally have a tool that will bring some sensibility to performing online peer code reviews.

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