[RFC] hgweb rewrite proposal (GSoC)

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:36 AM, alexandru <alex at hackd.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in tackling the rewrite of hgweb for GSoC. I've chatted on the topic with Dirkjan Ochtman briefly (over on #mercurial), and I'd like to get the list's suggestions and ideas (and feature requests, of course)
>
> Thoughts so far:
>
> + codebase rewrite to do-away with any long-standing hacks and other smelly code
> + separate/improve templating engine. there was discussion of including jinja/jinja2, though adding dependencies is something Matt expressed interest in avoiding
> + ui improvements for the default theme
> + better graph view
> + limit diff sizes (as per a recent list discussion)

i18n support would be nice I guess.

Cheers,

Benoit