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Source?

by bvdbijl 14y ago

Source?

parfe 14y ago
Yep. That's pretty much the focus of google code.
- imderek 14y ago
  I think he was asking for the source of @wahnfrieden's claim.
  - dwrowe 14y ago
    /that's the joke.mcbain.jpg
  - bvdbijl 14y ago
    Yeah, I was. I would still like to know
  - skeletonjelly 14y ago
    Hah. This reads like a geeky Airplane!/Flying High quote or something.
- pjscott 14y ago
  Not yet it isn't. In the current UI, to get to the source code, you have to 1. Find the little "Source" link and click it. 2. Find the "Browse" link, which is in a little toolbar right under the other little toolbar, next to the (less relevant) "Changes" and "Clones" links, which look visually near-identical. 3. In most (but not all) projects, hunt down the word "trunk" in tiny 13px text, and click it to see the main development branch. Compare to GitHub or BitBucket, which just show you the damn code. (Yes, I know you were joking, but I've been wanting to rant about this UI failure for a while now. And don't even get me started on Launchpad.)
  - kanzure 14y ago
    > but I've been wanting to rant about this UI failure for a while now. And don't even get me started on Launchpad. After five years or whatever of being tricked into clicking Launchpad links, I just noticed the other day that they have a "source" link on the top left corner. I had no idea they actually displayed source code. I always thought it was some crappy bug reporting product. Who knew?
    - masklinn 14y ago
      > I always thought it was some crappy bug reporting product. Hah. Got you, it's also a crappy project-hosting product, a crappy code-hosting product, a crappy code review product and a crappy FQA/Q&A product. And an acceptable translation product (not as good as Transifex, but it's free, bit it requires using the rest of that crap).
      - Flimm 14y ago
        I've always liked the bug-tracker. It's much more user-friendly than bugzilla IMO, and it handles bugs that affect multiple projects really well, even when the other projects use other bug trackers.
        masklinn 14y ago
        > It's much more user-friendly than bugzilla IMO That's a pretty low bar to set though. > and it handles bugs that affect multiple projects really well Kind-of, changing the project set (outside of adding projects to an existing bug) might be impossible (same with in-project "series" — its code for branches), until fairly recently the role of some statuses was very unclear (and I'm still not entirely sure of their actual use), one of the links is essentially useless and — as everywhere else in launchpad — text formatting is completely non-existent (without even talking about richer data sets, such as adding screenshots to bug reports which falls under "add attachment or patch"). Multi-project and multi-branch tracking are nice, but they're limited and they don't make the tracker much friendlier.

Source?

by bvdbijl 14y ago

Source?

parfe 14y ago

Yep. That's pretty much the focus of google code.

imderek 14y ago
I think he was asking for the source of @wahnfrieden's claim.
- dwrowe 14y ago
  /that's the joke.mcbain.jpg
- bvdbijl 14y ago
  Yeah, I was. I would still like to know
- skeletonjelly 14y ago
  Hah. This reads like a geeky Airplane!/Flying High quote or something.
pjscott 14y ago
Not yet it isn't. In the current UI, to get to the source code, you have to 1. Find the little "Source" link and click it. 2. Find the "Browse" link, which is in a little toolbar right under the other little toolbar, next to the (less relevant) "Changes" and "Clones" links, which look visually near-identical. 3. In most (but not all) projects, hunt down the word "trunk" in tiny 13px text, and click it to see the main development branch. Compare to GitHub or BitBucket, which just show you the damn code. (Yes, I know you were joking, but I've been wanting to rant about this UI failure for a while now. And don't even get me started on Launchpad.)
- kanzure 14y ago
  > but I've been wanting to rant about this UI failure for a while now. And don't even get me started on Launchpad. After five years or whatever of being tricked into clicking Launchpad links, I just noticed the other day that they have a "source" link on the top left corner. I had no idea they actually displayed source code. I always thought it was some crappy bug reporting product. Who knew?
  - masklinn 14y ago
    > I always thought it was some crappy bug reporting product. Hah. Got you, it's also a crappy project-hosting product, a crappy code-hosting product, a crappy code review product and a crappy FQA/Q&A product. And an acceptable translation product (not as good as Transifex, but it's free, bit it requires using the rest of that crap).
    - Flimm 14y ago
      I've always liked the bug-tracker. It's much more user-friendly than bugzilla IMO, and it handles bugs that affect multiple projects really well, even when the other projects use other bug trackers.
      - masklinn 14y ago
        > It's much more user-friendly than bugzilla IMO That's a pretty low bar to set though. > and it handles bugs that affect multiple projects really well Kind-of, changing the project set (outside of adding projects to an existing bug) might be impossible (same with in-project "series" — its code for branches), until fairly recently the role of some statuses was very unclear (and I'm still not entirely sure of their actual use), one of the links is essentially useless and — as everywhere else in launchpad — text formatting is completely non-existent (without even talking about richer data sets, such as adding screenshots to bug reports which falls under "add attachment or patch"). Multi-project and multi-branch tracking are nice, but they're limited and they don't make the tracker much friendlier.