loggerhead: alternative web front-end

[Nicholas Allen]

Good work! I definitely like the interface. I only played around for a 
few minutes so maybe these suggestions aren't valid:

* Revids to be displayed as well as dotted revision numbers (they could 
be tooltips when space is tight)
* The diff viewer is MUCH nicer than the original but I would still like 
a side by side option too though.
* When viewing a file it would be nice if it were possible to show only 
the plain text version (without annotations) so that you can copy and 
paste from it or save the file. In the original webserve there was a 
button "Raw" at the top that did this. I think maybe "Download file" 
would be a better name...

I'll let you know if I think of any other suggestions. Thanks!

Nick

Robey Pointer wrote:
> I've been using bazaar-webserve as the web interface for paramiko's 
> bazaar branch for many months now, and while it works well, the user 
> interface has been vexing me.  Since I have a short vacation right 
> now, I decided to tackle the templates and CSS there and try to fix 
> them into a decent working shape.  Long story short, I saw the 
> recursive template language, made a few disappointing forays, and gave 
> up.
>
> So: I have written an alternate version using TurboGears.  I copied a 
> lot of Goffredo's core code from webserve, and so carried over his 
> copyright and the GPL, but the interface is all new and uses kid 
> templates.  By the way, I want to say here that while the templating 
> code made me feel really ill, the logic inside webserve is well 
> thought-out, and a few times I tried to rewrite things my own way only 
> to end up realizing webserve was doing it the right way all along and 
> I should just copy it.
>
> I guess what I'm saying is, I didn't do this as a slam on webserve, I 
> did it because I want the web interface to look nice.
>
> The code is hosted in a bazaar branch (of course) here:
>
>     http://www.lag.net/~robey/code/loggerhead/
>
> And I'm hosting the bzr.dev branch through logger head here, if you'd 
> like to check it out:
>
>     http://www.lag.net/bzr.dev/
>
> If anyone has suggestions, comments, flames, patches, etc, I'm open 
> for them.
>
> I'm going to make a separate thread about a performance issue I ran 
> into... :)
>
> robey
>
> (PS. A loggerhead is a type of sea turtle.)
>
>