GitalistBecause gitweb.cgi isn’t a great advertisement for Perl

Zachary Stevens<zts@cryptocracy.com>

In the beginning...

gitweb.cgi

• By Kay Sievers and Christian Gierke

• included with core git

• written in perl

gitweb.cgi - good

• well-commented

• sane design

• meets implementation constraints

gitweb.cgi - bad

• utilitarian interface

• implementation contraints

• == unfun to modify

• == restricted to core perl

• poor foundation for extensions

Gitalist

• Started by Dan Brook (broquaint)

• Transitional project

• Catalyst

• Moose

Gitalist - Goals

• Feature parity

• URI compatibility

• Easy to extend

• Better representative of modern Perl

The Evolutionary Process

Gitalist - Step 1

• Adds Catalyst and TT

• Wrapped gitweb

• “World’s thinnest controller”

No, Really

Gitalist - Step 2

• Adds Moose and rafl’s gitweb

• First real Catalyst actions

• project index

• header and footer

Gitalist - Step 3

• OO Model

• All actions implemented

• No more gitweb.pm!

Achievements

• First production release on CPAN

• URI compatibility

• Feature complete

• Useful tests

Required Work

• Finding bugs

• Fixing bugs

• More tests

• Improve configurability

The Future

JSON

Caching

InterfaceEnhancements

•Blame + history navigation•Rendered markdown/pod/etc•Improved activity summary

...to suggest features

...or send patches!

Thanks

• Kay Sievers and Christian Gierke

• rafl

• Dan Brook (broquaint)

• Tomas Doran (t0m)

• Venda (www.venda.com)

Gitalist

• http://github.com/broquaint/Gitalist

• http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gitalist

• #gitalist on irc.perl.org

Installing from Git

$ git clone git://git.shadowcat.co.uk/catagits/Gitalist.git

$ cd Gitalist

$ perl Makefile.PL && make installdeps

$ ./script/gitalist_server.pl