Web site designer wanted for SVN::Web

Does anyone on this list have a knack for web site design
(in the layout, 
CSS sense) and a bit of spare time?  Familiarity with TT
would be a bonus, 
but not a requirement.

I'd like SVN::Web[1] to have a new default look and feel. 
The current 
one[2] is heavily borrowed from trac[3], and while it does
the job, it'd be 
nice if it had something that was its own.

I can't pay anything, naturally, but you'll have the
satisfaction of seeing 
your design used by default on a multitude of developer
repos, and, of 
course, full credit in the documentation.

If you're interested, drop me a line off-list.  Ta.

N

[1] http://search.c
pan.org/~NIKC/SVN-Web/
[2] http://jc.ngo.org.uk/svn
web/
[3] http://www.edgewall.com
/trac/

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:52:31AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:

> I'd like SVN::Web[1] to have a new default look and
feel.  The current 
> one[2] is heavily borrowed from trac[3], and while it
does the job, it'd be 
> nice if it had something that was its own.

May I be extremely lazy and not a little bit cheeky, since I
did some
work on getting SVN::Web to work woth mod_perl2 and never
got around to
forwarding them on to you?

I was just working with SVN::Web today and wanted a couple
of things.
First, I wanted to get the diffs against something other
than the
previous version.  (I actually wanted to do this recursively
in a
subdirectory.)  And secondly I wanted to see all the log
messages, but
requesting >= the number of checkins resulted in an empty
page.  Neither
of these are too important since I can just use svk.

Oh, and it seems that Number::Format (IIRC) is a required
dependency,
but not specified.  Or at least CPAN.pm doesn't
automatically install
it.  I seem to recall looking into this briefly and
concluding it was
not your problem, but you might want to solve it anyway.

I realise this is the wrong forum and that the report is
rubbish and so
on, but maybe it gives you something vaguely useful I
wouldn't otherwise
have got around to sending.  Isn't open source wonderful?

And thanks a bunch for your work on SVN::Web.  And clkao.

-- 
Paul Johnson - paulpjcj.net
http://www.pjcj.net

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:52:31AM +0100, Nik Clayton
wrote:
> 
>> I'd like SVN::Web[1] to have a new default look
and feel.  The current 
>> one[2] is heavily borrowed from trac[3], and while
it does the job, it'd be 
>> nice if it had something that was its own.
> 
> May I be extremely lazy and not a little bit cheeky,
since I did some
> work on getting SVN::Web to work woth mod_perl2 and
never got around to
> forwarding them on to you?

Yes.  As a quid pro quo I may want to take a look
conf/httpd.tt in the 
SVN::Web 0.48 distribution and design me one that's going
to work with 
mod_perl2...

> I was just working with SVN::Web today and wanted a
couple of things.
> First, I wanted to get the diffs against something
other than the
> previous version.

You can do that for individual files.  View the file's
revision log, and 
there are checkboxes down the left hand side.  Check the two
revisions 
you want to compare and hit the "Compare"
button.

> (I actually wanted to do this recursively in a
subdirectory.)

My stumbling block for this feature is trying to work out
how it would 
work in the UI.

I can see how it might work for directories that are
siblings.  For 
example, you're in a tags/ directory, and you want to see
the diffs 
between two child directories (e.g., tags/RELEASE_0_47 and 
tags/RELEASE_0_48).

I'm not sure how it work work elsewhere (e.g., wanting to
compare /trunk 
against an arbitrary directory in /branches.

The closest I've got to an approach at the moment (no code,
just an 
idea) is to allow the user to 'bookmark' a single
directory (stored in a 
cookie), and have a "Compare the current directory to
the bookmarked 
directory" button.

If you don't like the sound of that (can't blame you, I'm
not overly 
happy with it myself) are there any other Web GUIs that have
the feature 
that I can steal^Wlearn from?

> And secondly I wanted to see all the log messages, but
> requesting >= the number of checkins resulted in an
empty page.

That's a bug.  As a quick fix, add this to SVN/Web/Log.pm:

   sub _limit {
       my $self = shift;
       my $l    = shift;

       return defined $l ? $l : 20;
   }

Then find all the places in Log.pm where $limit is assigned
to (run() 
and cache_key()) and replace the assignments with:

   my $limit =
$self->_limit($self->->param('limit'));

That should let you specify a limit of '0' to get all the
logs.

I'll have this (or something like it) in 0.49.

Longer term I plan to make the log results 'pageable'
(like Google 
search results).

> Oh, and it seems that Number::Format (IIRC) is a
required dependency,
> but not specified.  Or at least CPAN.pm doesn't
automatically install
> it.  I seem to recall looking into this briefly and
concluding it was
> not your problem, but you might want to solve it
anyway.

Sounds like a dependency problem WRT
Template::Plugin::Number::Format. 
I'll add the explicit dependency.

> I realise this is the wrong forum and that the report
is rubbish and so
> on, but maybe it gives you something vaguely useful I
wouldn't otherwise
> have got around to sending.  Isn't open source
wonderful?

It is indeed.

FWIW there's an SVN::Web mailing list now (v. quiet, as
I've just 
started it).  http://j
c.ngo.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/svnweb for details.

N