Code review and coverage marks

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 12:50:09 EDT 2014


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
> On 08/03/2014 06:09 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First impressions on the project.
>> The interface looks cluttered and geeky.
>
>
> It is. We hope someone with skills in that area will improve it. A first
> step will be when licensing has been worked out and we can use Sean's
> FontAwesome work as seen on https://smf.io/hg .

I am not sure that going to monotone theme is a right way. It looks less
cluttered, but boring. What will help is a bit of statistics - which features
from interface are used more often.

>> Also bad that Mailman
>> doesn't have forum interface like Google Groups to subscribe to
>> individual threads. Anyway..
>
>
> Well ... it _is_ a mailing list. People who try to use mailing lists as if
> they were forums often turn it into the lowest(!) common denominator.

It is inconvenient anyway, and the point is that Mailman lists seem
to lose (a lot of?) feedback from newer generation.

>> Is there a capability in Kallithea to store personal labels attached
>> to source code lines, such as code coverage marks and review
>> coverage with comments? Basically I need to label reviewed lines
>> in some product as I do security research, so that I knew that
>> these lines there reviewed by me (or smb. else) at a certain date.
>>
>> Is that possible with Kallithea?
>
>
> No. How should that work when files are changed?

Yes. Labels should be attached to source code lines, the same way
annotate does.

> Comments in a pull request could perhaps be an approximation of what you are
> asking for.

No, it is not enough. Although I'd be interested to know Kallithea strategy
on handling them, especially old comments on updated code.
-- 
anatoly t.


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