REVIEW OF REQUESTS TO MODIFY CONTEXTUAL DATA OF A PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

• US 20110307802A1
• Filed: 06/10/2010
• Published: 12/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2010
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Gupta, Shreyank
• Application Number:
  US12/813,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20110307802A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/751
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

Some embodiments of a system and a method to review contextual data of programming interfaces have been presented. For instance, a processing device may generate a user interface to collect feedback from a group of reviewers on a programming interface in response to a request to modify contextual data of the programming interface. The processing device then consolidates the feedback to evaluate the feedback. Based on the feedback, the processing device determines whether to modify the contextual data of the programming interface as requested.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

generating, by a processing device, a user interface to collect feedback from a plurality of reviewers on a programming interface in response to a request to modify contextual data of the programming interface;

consolidating, by the processing device, the feedback collected to evaluate the feedback; and

determining, by the processing device, whether to modify the contextual data of the programming interface based on the feedback.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

pulling, by the processing device, the request to modify the contextual data of the programming interface from a defect tracking store, which has received the request from a user of the programming interface.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

evaluating, by the processing device, the feedback from the plurality of reviewers; and

rejecting, by the processing device, the request if the feedback from at least one of the plurality of reviewers is negative.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

evaluating, by the processing device, the feedback from the plurality of reviewers; and

approving, by the processing device, the request if the feedback from all of the plurality of reviewers is positive.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

forwarding, by the processing device, the feedback collected from the plurality of reviewers to the defect tracking store.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the programming interface to the reviewers via the user interface.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises a web-based graphical user interface.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a storage device to store a plurality of programming interfaces; and

a processing device coupled to the storage device, to generate a user interface to collect feedback from a plurality of reviewers on a programming interface in response to a request to modify contextual data of the programming interface, to consolidate the feedback collected to evaluate the feedback, and to determine whether to modify the contextual data of the programming interface based on the feedback.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing device pulls the request to modify the contextual data of the programming interface from a defect tracking store, which has received the request from a user of the programming interface.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing device evaluates the feedback from the plurality of reviewers, and rejects the request if the feedback from at least one of the plurality of reviewers is negative.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing device evaluates the feedback from the plurality of reviewers, and approves the request if the feedback from all of the plurality of reviewers is positive.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing device forwards the feedback collected from the plurality of reviewers to the defect tracking store.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a display device to display the programming interface to the reviewers via the user interface.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the user interface comprises a web-based graphical user interface.

15. A system comprising the apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

a server to run a defect tracking store to receive the request from a user.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

a computing machine having a display device, communicably coupled to the processing device, wherein the processing device sends the user interface generated to the computing machine to be rendered on the display device of the computing machine.

17. A computer-readable storage medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a processing device, will cause the processing device to perform a method comprising:

generating a user interface to collect feedback from a plurality of reviewers on a programming interface in response to a request to modify contextual data of the programming interface;

consolidating the feedback collected to evaluate the feedback; and

determining whether to modify the contextual data of the programming interface based on the feedback.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

pulling the request to modify the contextual data of the programming interface from a defect tracking store, which has received the request from a user of the programming interface.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

evaluating the feedback from the plurality of reviewers; and

rejecting the request if the feedback from at least one of the plurality of reviewers is negative.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

evaluating the feedback from the plurality of reviewers; and

approving the request if the feedback from all of the plurality of reviewers is positive.

21. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

forwarding the feedback collected from the plurality of reviewers to the defect tracking store.

22. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

displaying the programming interface to the reviewers via the user interface.

23. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the user interface comprises a web-based graphical user interface.