Re: Announcing gnatsweb 2.9.2

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 00:29 27.10.2001 +0200, Kim Andersen wrote:
> Hi Yngve,
>
> Nice work.
> I'm constantly "hacking" around in the presentation part of gnatsweb, as
> I believe the form
> can be more effectively presented (at least in our environment, and for
> our usage)
>
> I'd like to see some of my changes in the official gnatsweb, so I can
> get rid of a little of my
> workload.
> Either by providing my changes (or whatever subset we can agree on), or
> helping in making *MUCH* more
> of the form controllable by site_callbacks.
>
> I'm attaching my current layout for the "New Problem Report" - equal
> changes has been done to the
> editing form.
> Also my "Main" page, which convinently provides the basic searching in
> the reports that most of
> my users like to see.
>
> Let the critisizm roll :-)
>
> regards
> kim
>
> PS.
> The "Looping Status Window" pops up a new window. This window is being
> updated every 5minutes to
> show reports entered/modified within last 24 hours.
> The "Search" part uses glimpse/swish for doing full-text indexing of the
> reports.

This is interesting indeeed. I am planning to do some major changes to the 
presentation parts of Gnatsweb in the version due after 4.0 (Gnatsweb 2.x 
is dead development-wise), and this certainly provides some interesting 
ideas. I am sure we could agree on implementing some of this, while 
callbacks would be a good idea for some of these things. However, I am a 
bit busy trying to help push GNATS 4 itself out the door right now, so 
Gnatsweb 4.1 or 4.5 or whatever is still a good way off. I'll do some 
thinking and get back to you later, and if you come up with further ideas, 
please get in touch again.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer