add diffamation to merge-review frontend

[Mirco Müller]

Having seen the talk about Fanny Chevalier's (et al) work on "Diffamation - Using text animated transitions to support navigation in document histories" makes me suggest to add this way of presenting differences of code-revisions to LP's merge-review frontend.

Fanny held a plenary-talk at UDS Maverick in Bruxelles, may 2010. A link to the paper on it can be found here http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1753427&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=87950451&CFTOKEN=81897825

This is especially helpful for code-bases one is not so familiar with, but needs/wants to do code-reviews on.

This is certainly a feature-request (wishlist) item.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

She's still working on permission to release the code.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

[Fanny Chevalier (fanny)]

Diffamation is implemented in Java and is currently under the CeCILL-2 licence.

The code is available on the Diffamation project's website: http://www.aviz.fr/diffamation/

Please don't hesitate if you have question. I would love to assist in the transfer of my work into your product.