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** [tickets:#7681] git fork workflow improvement suggestions**

**Status:** open
**Milestone:** limbo
**Labels:** ux 
**Created:** Thu Sep 11, 2014 07:23 PM UTC by zeromus
**Last Updated:** Thu Sep 11, 2014 07:23 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody

This was motivated by a user who wanted to delete a git fork, and needed 
guidance to find it in the user tools area. This is not an obvious thing at all 
and only makes sense if you understand the internal allura organization. It 
seemed there was a simpler way (item #4) we could direct him to it. The rest of 
these items I discovered while writing up #4
<p>
1. https://sourceforge.net/u/zeromus/profile/ : From this page, it is not clear 
that to _edit_ a tool, I have to pick [Add Tools]. The button should be called 
[Edit Tools] and one would assume that you can add tools from there. 
<p>
2. There should be a page you can generate for every installed tool which would 
just contain a list of commands--the same list of commands printed for every 
tool at https://sourceforge.net/u/zeromus/admin/tools . For example, 
https://sourceforge.net/u/zeromus/admin/my-git-fork/tools . This will be useful 
for item #4
<p>
3. For the git tool, https://sourceforge.net/u/zeromus/admin/tools there is no 
way to get to the actual fork page. This is odd, because from 
https://sourceforge.net/u/zeromus/profile/ , I could _only_ get to the actual 
fork page. There should be a command on the git tool called: Visit Fork Page
<p>
4. There is no way to way to delete a git fork from the fork's page. There is a 
little list of commands (fork, request merge), but some users expect the full 
assortment of commands (which are currently only visible from the tools 
administration page) to appear here. A simple way to effect this would be to 
add a link to the fork page called [ Config ] or [ Admin ] which would take you 
to the appropriate place in the tools administration. Now, the ideal 
destination for this link is the 
https://sourceforge.net/u/zeromus/admin/my-git-fork/tools described in item #2. 
If it goes to https://sourceforge.net/u/zeromus/admin/tools instead, then the 
user is forced to look through unrelated administration stuff before finding 
the options for the git repository/fork that he was just looking at. However... 
it's not the end of the world. 


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