[Gitstat-devel] Were are we going

[Paul V. <pau...@gm...>]

Hi,

As you may have noticed, the number of patches is slowing down quite 
drastically. The time I can spent on the project is more limited currently. I 
hope it will change in the (nearby) future though.

There are several issues that still need to be solved but I'm currently focusing 
on two (2) items:

- Getting an installation.php (almost finished)
- Splitting of the data gathering from the main pages (started the thinking)

The reason for item one is obviously to ease the installation part. Once that's 
done I'll continue with making the configuration a bit easier. Both these items 
are intended to get rid of the hand-written config files.

Currently some of our pages (noticeably index.php and chart.php) contain a lot 
of duplicate code to fetch data from the MySQL database.
I think we should generate this data via separate 'library' functions and have 
the index/chart pages call these functions. The major benefits are that we have 
one source for gathering data and that we split the layout a little bit more 
from the content.

Putting the data gathering part into separate functions will also make it easier 
to implement other data sources. So instead of just having MySQL we could have 
SQLite, MS SQL or even no database at all (just call the needed git functions 
directly).
The above is not something I plan to do but was just another thought.

I think the 2 mentioned items is something for version 0.5 but I also want to 
throw in a few extra's, just to make it worthwhile upgrading. Obviously we have 
to fix some of the outstanding issue. The most important one is the 'author per 
release' which is still not correct.

Hope to hear for other suggestions, remarks etc..

Cheers,

Paul.