Not that I am interested in the perl language but apparently they are now using the GIT version control system.
What is interesting is how fast this software is gaining popularity. I'm still using Trac + SVN.
Showing posts with label subversion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subversion. Show all posts
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Friday, December 5, 2008
Trac provides a good example of RESTful resources
The Trac issue tracking and wiki system provides a good example of a RESTful web resource. Good RESTful resources are connected. This means that the associations between resources are within the resource. If a given resource is associated with another resource, the second resource should be navigable from the first.
This is the basic concept behind links in hypermedia.
Trac, however takes this a step further with a trivial feature that is much more valuable than it may seem at first glance. Trac integrates very nicely with subversion. In a large percentage of cases, one ore more changesets are associated with a ticket. It is also fairly trivial to link to a changeset from within a ticket. Here is the interesting feature. The title attribute of the anchor that links to the changeset is the message associated with the changeset. Here is what I mean.
This subtle feature has saved me the time required to actually follow a link to view the changeset resource on numerous occasions. Most of the time, we're only interested in the message. Trac has realized this usability issue and addressed it.
This is the basic concept behind links in hypermedia.
Trac, however takes this a step further with a trivial feature that is much more valuable than it may seem at first glance. Trac integrates very nicely with subversion. In a large percentage of cases, one ore more changesets are associated with a ticket. It is also fairly trivial to link to a changeset from within a ticket. Here is the interesting feature. The title attribute of the anchor that links to the changeset is the message associated with the changeset. Here is what I mean.
This subtle feature has saved me the time required to actually follow a link to view the changeset resource on numerous occasions. Most of the time, we're only interested in the message. Trac has realized this usability issue and addressed it.
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