feature requests for loggerhead

[Michael Hudson]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Michael Hudson wrote:
>> Hi all,
> 
>> As some of you know by now, as part of my work at Canonical I'm working
>> on loggerhead -- or, to be accurate, getting a good way of presenting
>> bzr branches on the web, and loggerhead looks like the place to start.
>> Loggerhead is what you're looking at when you click "browse code" on
>> launchpad, for example:
> 
>> http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk/changes
> 
>> So far I've mostly been fixing bugs and getting to know the code, but
>> I'm now at the point where deeper restructuring is on the cards.  Fixing
>> performance and reliability issues are the main things I know about, but
>> I'd like to here from people who use or would like to use
>> loggerhead/codebrowse and wish it did things differently.
> 
>> Cheers,
>> mwh
> 
> 
> 
> The biggest one that I know of is the reliability stuff. Also, as a use case of
> bzrlib it might be good if you have any feedback for things that are
> missing/crufty.

OK.

> Also, did you see the recent thread about "webserve" and how it compares to
> ViewCVS?

Yes, but it didn't seem to go very far really.  It would be nice to have
recursive last changed info for directories.  Implement hash trees
already! :)

> Some people like to look at projects in the "Tree" view,

Yes, but they're wrong!  Oops, is that too much of an overstatement? :)

I don't like ViewVC.

> and have an
> idea of the recursive last changed for different directories, last author, etc.
> I didn't follow it very close, but it would probably be good for you to read
> through.

I'm not sure there was much more to it than that, in the end.

Cheers,
mwh