3 posts tagged “usability”
UPDATE: See the first comment, It's built in and easy! And apparently completely undocumented anywhere on the internets...
Hey you geeks out there! I'm looking for a "nightly build" or on-demand archive plugin for Subversion or Trac and I'm wondering if perhaps the Greater Vox knowledge base has any leads for me.
What I would hope to do is make something like this accessible to normal users who don't know what Subversion is via a special URL. For example, if they are trying to get a zip archive of:
http://code.sixapart.com/trac/mtplugins/browser/trunk/RebuildQueue/
...they could just go to:
http://code.sixapart.com/trac/mtplugins/browser/trunk/RebuildQueue/download/zip
...or maybe:
http://code.sixapart.com/svn/mtplugins/trunk/RebuildQueue/download/zip
The actual URLs aren't the important part here. What is important is that there is a brainless way to get a downloadable archive of source code via a browser from Trac or Subversion and that implementing this system is equally brainless.
Is there anything out there which does this or is this really a roll-your-own system?
Just yesterday, I mentioned that the response page after submitting feedback caused me inadvertently not submit my feedback
Today, that is fixed and it was immediately very clear to me what was going on. Yay Comet team!!
Now if only I didn't have to fill in my email address every time I submit feedback....  (I've already submitted that -- individually so that it can be tracked...)
I've submitted a couple of feedback items and only just now realized that, due to the way the feedback submission page is laid out, I didn't actually submit my feedback.
The idea of submitting a form only to be asked whether you want to cancel your submission is weird enough (especially when your feedback isn't shown on the screen like in a preview), but to require a user to confirm ("Yes go ahead and do what I already asked you to do") by clicking a submission button on the right is going to cause a lot of feedback to never reach us.
Looking at the feedback URL, I realize that this may not be our ball of wax to fix, but I worry that we're going to be losing a lot of feedback because the options after submitting it are so completely different than anything else on the web and not intuitive at all.
