If only we could plug in the gerrit back-end (via API) to the phabricator front-end. Phabricator has a much better diff viewer and commenting system. Gerrit is superior in many ways but the UI is so terrible it's not even funny.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Paladox <[email protected]> wrote: > Not really, since gerrit is a google owned project, and google supports > most browsers, it is unlikely that Internet Explorer will never be > unsupported in google projects unless no one uses ie or Microsoft drops all > support for Internet Explorer. > > On Tuesday, 27 September 2016, 9:39, rupert THURNER < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Isn't Gerrit more for developers who as a consequence anyway run multiple > browsers and therefore do not care so much that it does not support Ie? > On Sep 26, 2016 20:14, "Paladox" <[email protected]> wrote: > > There new skin called polygerrit fixes all the issues described here. It > is moving along greatly but it doesn't support all browsers yet, namely > Internet Explorer due to polygerrit using es6 and internet explorer does > not support es6. They are going to something in the q2 of next year work on > internet explorer support, hopefully it will make it into gerrit 2.14, > 2.15, and hopefully we will still be using gerrit then and update it and > also hopefully polygerrit will have added all the missing features. > Polygerrit is very responsive as I tried this on my mobile (iPhone) and it > worked. > > > > On Monday, 26 September 2016, 18:39, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 5:41 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 25/09/16 21:09, Bináris wrote: > > > I try to familiarize myself with Gerrit which is not a good example for > > > user-friendly interface. > > > I noticed a letter B in the upper right corner of the screen, and I > > > suspected it could be a portion of my login name. So I looked at it in > > HTML > > > source, and it was. I pushed my mouse on it and I got another half > window > > > as attached. > > > > > > So did somebody perhaps wire the size of a 25" monitor into page > > rendering? > > > My computer is a Samsung notebook. > > > > In T38471 I complained that the old version was too wide at 1163px > > (for my dashboard on a random day). Now the new version is 1520px. I'm > > not sure if the Gerrit folks are serious or are trolling us. Perhaps > > it is a tactic to encourage UI code contributions? > > > > My suspicion is that the Gerrit folks (in particular, Shawn Pierce) aren't > so much trolling us as saying "stop relying on the UI of Gerrit! That's > not the point!" The last time I was paying close attention to this, Gerrit > upstream seems to be particularly focused on building code review features > suitable for: > 1. Incorporation into git upstream > 2. Integrated into development UIs like Eclipse > > The strategy seems to be "Gerrit is a reference implementation of a code > review UI for Git". I haven't paid close enough attention to either Gerrit > upstream or Git upstream to know if the Gerrit core contributors have made > progress in getting code review functionality added to Git core (or if > they've given up, or if I completely misunderstood their strategy). I'm > guessing that Eclipse has pretty good Gerrit support, but I rarely play > with Eclipse, so that's just a guess based on the Eclipse Foundation's > involvement with Gerrit. > > As bd808 noted, Gerrit upstream seems to be working on yet another UI, > which would make sense if their goal is to create a variety of compatible > implementations of advanced Git functionality. > > Rob > ______________________________ _________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/ mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > ______________________________ _________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/ mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
