Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] GitHub and ACLs

On 21 Apr 2009, at 12:11, shire wrote:
> sean finney wrote:
>> hi travis,
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:56:30PM -0500, Travis Swicegood wrote:
>>> needed before PHP could consider jumping onboard.  He's hacked up a
>>> proof of concept that he's going to start working with.  The code is
>>> online at:
>>> 	http://github.com/schacon/githooks/blob/88b25d960050a90c3143d13d72faea72fab6b907/update
>>
>> i thought there was already agreement that we were going to move to  
>> svn, with
>> a possible git-svn bridge available for us git users?  has that  
>> changed?
>>
>
> That was my understanding.

It still looks open pending peoples desires and actions. The desire  
for git feels stronger than svn.

> However, I'm still happy to discuss things I think Git-Hub could do  
> to make it more appealing, I assume this would be useful to Git-Hub  
> regardless of our decision to move or not as they are things other  
> large OS projects would want too I assume.
>
> I think the next biggest missing feature/design that bothers me is  
> the revision history which could use some design work and usability  
> changes.  For example the amount of information displayed is pretty  
> limited considering the layout and icons, no time, etc.  I don't  
> believe there's good search capability either (by commit history,  
> author, etc).  I wouldn't really use the revision history at all as  
> the git CLI is so much more powerful right now.

I like the simplicity. And for those times we need alternatives then I  
see people using git cli and/or [possibly] an additional web interface  
at php.net.

Agreed that the search could be improved [and it likely will be] but  
the tagged filters are nice. I do feel today it could replace  
lxr.php.net although the regular expression search would be missed.  
Let's request this feature. Maybe google codesearch could somehow be  
integrated and manipulated to nicely handle revisions/history.

> I feel like some views are artificially limited by width, so you  
> have to scroll:
> http://github.com/johannes/php-src/blob/b59592be8a004a71937240c0bf924b5e3f162ebe/Zend/zend_language_parser.y
>
> Especially apparent on the blame:
> http://github.com/johannes/php-src/blame/b59592be8a004a71937240c0bf924b5e3f162ebe/Zend/zend_language_parser.y
>
> Mostly little things, so I can't say it's a hold-up like ACLs, but  
> just some suggestions.

The blame widths are a concern although I'm not sure how it would be  
solved... maybe losing the frame would help. I could not find a blame  
feature with other git web interfaces for comparison, but viewvc does  
a decent job. And it looks like the ACL customization option for  
github is available to us.

Regards,
Philip