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Re: [trinity-devel] Improvements to the "Patches from GIT" web page

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:10:48 -0500
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> On 2014/10/27 06:58 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
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>>> The new "patches from GIT" page looks good and so does the search field
>>> at the bottom. Anyhow IMO there are still a few things to fix:
>>>
>>> 1) email addresses are shown in full, which is not that good being a
>>> page available without any login.
>>> It would be advisable to remove them, both from the committer column
>>> and
>>> the Log message column (for signed-off commits).
>>
>> While I don't fully agree with this (e.g. anyone can go to CGIT via the
>> "View" link and see all the Email addresses there, or even download the
>> repositories via GIT and retrieve all the Email addresses automatically
>> from that local copy) the Email addresses were wasting valuable space so
>> I
>> went ahead and removed them.  Publicly-known Email addresses are one of
>> the hazards of contributing to open source. ;-)
>>
>>> 2) I believe the correct name of the committer column should be
>>> "Author"
>>
>> Fixed.
>>
>>> 3) The page still displays with problems if the width of the browser
>>> window is small enough (the blue left side menu overlaps the page
>>> contents)
>>
>> Not sure I can do anything about this; E. Liddell would have to comment.
>>
>>> 4) The search field would probably be better if it was at the top,
>>> since
>>> it does not take up much page space. At the moment we need to scroll
>>> the
>>> whole page if we want to search for a particular commit
>>
>> Reworked.
>>
>>> 5) the 'page navigation' (the one saying 'Now viewing patches...')
>>> would
>>> be better if it had links to the next and previous adjacent pages as in
>>> most search engines (something like [1], [2], [3], .... to make it
>>> clear)
>>
>> I reworked the navigation system; is it more functional now?
>>
>>> 6) IMO, the name "Patches from GIT" is misleading for new users, as I
>>> already said in a previous email. Would be better to call it "GIT
>>> Commits" or "Commit history" or something with "commit" in it
>>
>> Opinions from the list are welcome here.  I will probably go with
>> "Commit
>> History" if no one else has a better suggestion.
>>
>>> Hope this is useful.
>>> Cheers
>>>     Michele
>>
>
> Tim, good work, thanks!
> Just one thing I think we could improve: the links to [First Page]
> [Previous Page]  [Next Page] [Last Page] could be either moved or
> duplicated at the top of the page. If a user wants to quickly scroll
> pages, at this time he has to scroll at the end of each page (or
> alternatively modify the address manually). What do you think?

I had thought of this yesterday but didn't have time to refactor the code
just then.  Fixed. :-)

> "Commit history" sounds good.

Fixed.

Thanks for your input!

Tim
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