Repositories order

[leem]

Hi all,

We've just got through migrating all our old TFS projects into git and then into a Gitorious local installation.  All is fine and is working great except for comments on ordering of Projects and Repos in the web interface.

We have around 100 projects and around 400 repos which, to the average end user, are in no discernible order making a specific project difficult to find.

I'm aware projects are ordered by created date and as such I managed to write a mysql script to change this date to make them appear in Alphabetical order by name.  This works well.  However, I'm trying to achieve the same thing with the repos table but for some reason it doesn't change the order in web interface.

My question - how are the Repositories ordered?

My second question - why can't we have the ability to configure the order ourselves?  To be created_at/updated_at seems like a very strange default option which you are potentially working a very large amount of projects.

Thanks.

[Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson]

Hi,

First question: IIRC the repository list on the project page is ordered
by "last pushed to". So the most recently active repos will show up on top.

Second question: generally on browsing & discoverability of
projects/repos in the Gitorious UI: we're overhauling the web UI this
fall, and will probably address this along the way. You are certainly
right that the interface needs more ways to order/slice/browse both
project and repo lists.

cheers,
Thomas

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[leem]

Thanks for the reply Thomas, it's about the only thing I didn't think of checking.

And thanks for answering about the Web UI - I'll keep a look out for any updates.  FYI I do really like the interface as it currently is, it's obviously the limitations that make things a bit difficult at times.

Thanks again,

Lee

[Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson]

No problem, happy to help.

And regarding the coming UI upgrades : stay tuned to the blog to stay up to date as we roll out the improvements this fall:
http://blog.gitorious.org/

As I said there are multiple things we want to improve: handling installations with large numbers of entities (projects|repos|tags|branches etc) better is one of them.

cheers,
Thomas