Re: gnatsweb status?

[Yngve Svendsen]

Yes, Gnatsweb development has been on ice for quite some time. I spent 
an extraordinary amount of time on GNATS amd Gnatsweb stuff for a couple 
of years and simply burnt out at one point.

Anyway, I have started looking at stuff again, while discovering how 
completely one can forget the syntax after 3 Perl-free years. I have 
started going through and committing some queued-up patches from 
Savannah and from the mailing lists. Please send patches, preferably 
through the Savannah interface; I may not have the kind of free time 
required right now to start taking Gnatsweb in major new directions, but 
I should be able to do the core maintainer stuff again.

One thing in particular which I did start thinking about before the long 
pause is a redesign of the feedback mechanism upon PR creation or edit. 
Could we get rid of the "display PR submitted page, then 
refresh/redirect to the page the user was at before" cycle and replace 
it with a little feedback field as part of the page banner? Basically 
you would click "Submit", then instead of getting the intermediate page 
saying "Problem report sent" or "Edit successful" be taken directly to 
the page you were at when you clicked Create or Edit, with a little 
field in the banner saying "Problem report number nn successfully 
submitted" or "Problem report nn successfully edited".

Would anyone be willing to take a look at that?

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer

Jo A Wahle wrote:
> Does anyone know the status of gnatsweb development? I've tried 
> contacting the Project Admins on the Savannah site - got a reply from 
> one who said he's not on that project anymore. I have a number of 
> changes to submit, mostly improved configurability plus a few 
> bugfixes; I see a few others have submitted some other changes.
>
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