Re: Brainstorming features for issues.guix.gnu.org

[John Soo]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

>> It is hard to find how patchsets differ - let alone where
>> revisions start and end.
>
> Do you have an idea how to improve this?  Should we use, for example,
> the message subject to detect revisions?  (E.g. [PATCH 3/3] will
> indicate that the end of the patch set has been reached.)
>
> How would we indicate different patch sets visually?  Should there be
> links somewhere to jump to patch sets?

Hmm. I don't know if I have a good answer yet. I think I like the
debbugs threaded view. Here are a couple ideas:

* Allow expansion/collapse of diffs
* Provide a thread view and a view of just one patchset (maybe computed
  via [PATCH 3/3] or by attachments as you mention)
* Provide an interdiff view between revisions
* Only show the most recent patchset like some large commercial products

I like the thread view idea since this is an email workflow, afterall.

It has been improving a lot and I am already using it a lot more now that
it has its own database.

John