Hello All,
I am new to this random public email writing ... and, at least for me it
takes a fair amount of courage to do so. I have had to face a few phobia
barriers based on experience.
I am interested in contributing to the project:
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*“Improve progress output displayed during update and commit.”*
I have written an approach towards it as follows:
This is basically a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) problem combined with
understanding the code, and estimating or updating the time it takes to
complete a file packet transfer. The user needs to be provided with more
detailed progress information for ‘svn’ commands, so they know how much
longer they need to wait. This feature is very important, especially for
GUI clients. Currently there are a rudimentary series of dots, one dot per
file with a filename after each complete file. This approach provides
insufficient visual communication regarding the percentage of the total
size to transmit, or the total number of files to transmit. In general this
is an interface change, which could be approached such that it refrains
form disturbing the existing parsers of ‘svn commit’ output. Some progress
information is available such as the number of bytes or progress of a data
chunk to be transferred. Missing from the equation is the number of files/
chunks that need to be transferred and how many already are transferred.
For when doing a ‘svn up’, there is no way of telling the user whether it
will take seconds, minutes or hours until the update will be complete if a
lot has been changed. One approach could be to increase the granularity of
update feedback. For example there could be progress bar feedback for every
50K in either direction. Alternately, since it is known how many files
there are to transmit, a progress bar could indicate the number of files
successfully transferred as a percentage of the total counted. For each
file DeltaV knows the data to be transmit, so a progress bar could be
established for it.
As yet I am still setting up the development environment, working through
the follow instructions:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/INSTALL
Putting together all these bits and bods seems quite foreign to me, and is
quite confronting. So, I am hopeful that people in this community can be
supportive and understanding of a learning/ experience gap ... as I trail
blaze into something I haven't tried before.
I look forward to getting to know some of you in the near future.
Kind regards,
Miriam Hochwald
Received on 2012-12-31 10:22:56 CET