Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Optional grouping of projects by category

At Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:36:12 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

Hello,

quoted

This adds the GITWEB_GROUP_CATEGORIES option which, if enabled, will
result in grouping projects by category on the project list page.

Should this really be build time configuration (to set default value)?

Probably not, I removed it.  I corrected my patch using all your other
comments and sent it again in another email.

Unfortunately it looks like you hit the edge of feature freeze again.

Damn, time is always against me :-)
Hope it's gonna be included eventually!

By the way, there was alternate patch series by Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
on 29 July 2008 adding categories support to gitweb:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/90553
with live demo at http://staff.get-e.org/

Right, I saw that in July but it's not exactly the same feature
(arbitrary category in config vs repository path).  I think both are
useful independently.. If both get supported, there should be a way to
do it modularly to reuse code though.

Btw you can see a demo of my patch here: http://inso.cc/git

Here is and important issue when adding categories support: how division
into categories interplays with sorting of projects.

I kept it how it was but added a comment in the commitlog.
 

Another issue is how categories interplay with limiting number of
projects displayed. Currently it is no issue, because projects list
page is not divided into pages, but I think you didn't address this
in your patch.

I think it's now better in v2, I added support for $from/$to also in
the categorized project list.

Thanks for your in depth comments, and I hope this patch will get
applied in the near future!

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Sébastien Cevey / inso.cc

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