[OpenStack-Infra] Feedback on git/repos on opendev.org

Whaley, Graham graham.whaley at intel.com
Mon May 13 15:04:55 UTC 2019


Hi,
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 I was heading to read the code for the kata zuul tenant, and had some niggles when trying to locate/navigate. I thought I'd at least drop the feedback here (thanks ttx). Some of it will be specific to my 'flow'....

Sooo, as I don't store the path to the repos in my head, I normally start out by going to git.openstack.org:
That used to get me to (iirc) the top level cgit type interface, where I could then navigate down to the kata repos. It now takes me to the top level of opendev.org, but not to the git area, and it is not immediately obvious to me where the git area is.

I found the git area under 'Explore' :-). The 'search' is a bit odd. It took me a moment to work out that it is alphabetical, if you ignore all the subdir prefix's (project names?). I'm not sure that is the most useful sort order tbh? Confused me for some time.
And then, if you search for 'kata' in the default search box, you get **no matching repos**. Which, also, is not quite what I'd expect.

Eventually I found the kata repos by sorting reverse-alphabetically and scrolling down :-) I know, the search is on 'repos', and not 'organisations' - but, if you just land on that page and search for something that happens to only have its name active at the project level (like kata), then you end up with no results. Maybe the search/results can be smarter, and provide the list of what it was searching for first (so in this case 'no repositories found'), and then some 'suggestions', like 'you may have been looking for organisation: kata'. Just thinking out loud.

Thanks,
	Graham



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