FS#10055 - [Brainstorm] Miscellaneous little annoyances

Attached to Project: AUR web interface
Opened by Ismael Barros (RazZziel) - Tuesday, 01 April 2008, 21:20 GMT
Last edited by Loui Chang (louipc) - Monday, 06 April 2009, 18:51 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend
Status Closed
Assigned To Loui Chang (louipc)
Callan Barrett (wizzomafizzo)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 1.5.1
Due in Version 1.6.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

I'm sorry for posting this as a single issue while it probably should go in separate issues, but I currently don't have time to do it.

- I don't have way of getting an email when someone comments on a package I mantain, and hate having to enter the AUR page if I want to check if my packages are giving problems to other users.
- I have to login every time I enter the page. No option to remember the login.
- A date like "20080401" is quite unreadable
- When I send a comment, upload a package or change the category, I get a useless message of "Comment sent". Would be better to show the package's page automatically again.
- While I write a comment I can't see the previous comments.
- The "(change category)" text near the "group::category" link is not a link. I see more logical to have a "group::category" text and a "(change category)" link.
- Every single time I update a package I have to select the category again, which is kinda stupid. I'd rather
a) Have a "update package" button on the package's page
b) When uploading in the "Submit" page, don't process the category if I'm updating a package. Or at least, please, don't process it if I'm updating a package and the category is set to "none" (default)
c) Remove the category menu from the Submit page. If it's the first time I'm uploading a package, prompt for category change.
d) Intert the category in the PKGBUILD (unlikely, I suppose, but cleaner)
- The "Sources" box in a package page is too thin. The three boxes seem to have a fixed width in pixels, while it would be probably better to have dynamic widths, as the URLs always end up wrapped in 7 pieces while there's a huge empty space at the right.
- Section names seem a little misleading to me. Propposed names:
Discussion -> Mailing list
Accounts -> Account, or Profile
- Maybe the Profile/Account/Accounts section could contain the list of packages I maintain, simplifying the section bar
- Logout is not a section, the functionality of the button is not symmetric, I would put it near "Logged-in as:"
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Closed by  Loui Chang (louipc)
Monday, 06 April 2009, 18:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  Most of this has been addressed. If there are still any requests please file them as separate tickets.
Comment by Ismael Barros (RazZziel) - Wednesday, 02 April 2008, 06:46 GMT
Disregard the first point, I'm stupid (and maybe it should be enabled by default for the packages I submit)
Also:
- When I login while reading a package's page, I get redirected to the main page instead of the page I was reading.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Friday, 23 January 2009, 09:00 GMT
Regarding "- A date like "20080401" is quite unreadable" i find the current one 2008 04 01 more unreadable than before. Maybe something using %b? Thats locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
Comment by Loui Chang (louipc) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 15:22 GMT
How is "2008 04 01" more unreadable than "20080401"? You're not serious are you?
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 16:37 GMT
I am serious, but i dont expect you to change it only because i said so. Its only a cosmetic & of the least significance thing.
Comment by Loui Chang (louipc) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 21:26 GMT
Well, I'm here to improve AUR. So if you can help me understand the way
you're perceiving things it may help lead to a better AUR.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 21:53 GMT
Fair enough :)
The ideal for me would be something like this: "Feb 18 2009". I guess thats american, the european would be "18 Feb 2009"
Definately something that has 2009 in the end, not the start.
Comment by Ismael Barros (RazZziel) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 23:57 GMT
2009-02-18 is the most "logical" way of displaying it (and I actually like it) but unless you are chinese it may not feel too "natural" (in Chinese everything is sorted from greater to smaller, dates too: year-month-day)

Anyway, as long as we don't have to count how many numbers are in "20080401" and try to manually parse them, I think it's quite fine. Is there a way to make the way of sorting dates depend on the user's language of choice?
Comment by Loui Chang (louipc) - Thursday, 19 February 2009, 04:07 GMT
Well I just pushed a patch that makes it consistent with other
dates appearing on the site.

They will appear like this:
Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:41:20 +0000
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Monday, 23 March 2009, 02:00 GMT
Just to add to the confusion, where I live, dates are often written on this form: 1/4 2008 (d/m y)

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