The primary tool used by the Harvest Master is the Update Incorporation Tool, a simple tool used in association with the BugFixArchiveViewer.
The Update Incorporation Tool is used by selecting attachments (changesets) in the BFAV and selecting "add to updates tool", one at a time. These form a list in the UpdateIncorporationTool. These changesets can then be tweaked, and then automatically given update # prefixes as a group, broadcasted to the update stream as a group, and then have [update - xxxx] messages posted as a group.
At some point I'd like to create some sort of submission-verification tool too, which could perform various automatic checks on a bugfix or enhancement submission before it is incorporated. (The same verification could also happen when the bugfix/enhancement is first submitted.) For example, it could make sure the changeset has a preamble, doesn't have any undeclared references, it's not missing any author initials timestamps, etc. -dew
