loggerhead: alternative web front-end

[Nicholas Allen]

Another suggestion:

In the annotated view can you show the commit message in the tooltip for 
a revision?

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.)
>
>