On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:39 PM Danny B. <[email protected]> wrote:
> First of all - thanks for putting the effort to upgrade! > > Unfortunately that is the last positive sentence I'll have here. However, > it > is not your fault at all. It is all about expectations. And my expectations > were that the UI/UX will be much more mature than the current version we > use. However, my biggest expectation turned into biggest disappointment. > > I'm sorry that you had this expectation. Gerrit has always been a tool written by engineers for engineers and has never benefited from a dedicated design team working on it (to my knowledge). While I think some things have improved, it's definitely still got rough edges and a learning curve. > Things are yet more unintuitive and crazy than in the current version. > Three > outstanding examples on behalf of others: > 1) It took me quite a long time to find a way, how to switch between > patchsets. Not even mentioning I can't compare them. > You can still compare them, it's with the "Diff against" dropdown that defaults to "Base." It's right above the filename listing. > 2) It took me also quite a long time to find a way, how to add new comment. > That reply button could be a little bigger, but yeah, the thing I'll mainly point out is that the various action buttons have been moved closer to the top. > 3) The commit message is in width limited box, which causes most of the > messages to be partially invisible and necessity to scroll. > [I'm not going to say the solutions here, everybody should experience on > their own...] > > I see what you mean here. Maybe a CSS tweak to make it wider by default? > I assume that the slowness is just because it is testing environment and > production will be faster, but just in case, I'm mentioning that too (ask > for details should you need any). > > I'm not seeing slowness myself, but I have heard this complaint from a few others. For what it's worth, this *is* running on production hardware with higher specs than the old machine, so if anything it should be faster! There's some new features and other things we're not quite making use of yet, so we might need to do some further fine-tuning. > I apologize for not being positive, I can imagine that being discouraging. > On the other hand I can see one promise behind that: I believe this will be > another kicker for faster migration to Differential & co. I'm not discouraged. Thank you for the feedback! > For the time being > - do any skins exist? If yes, wouldn't it be worth it to investigate them > and possibly install any instead of the default one? > > No, there are no such things as skins in Gerrit. We can adjust a few things here and there with some CSS and header files, but there's no real support for a UI other than what Gerrit ships. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
