Thoughts

[Henri Yandell <fl...@gmail.com>]

Some thoughts on the interface:

* I really hate how the logo in the top left is for the Archiva site
and not for the Archiva installation. I have the same grumble with
Continuum. It's not what a user would usually expect, so it ends up
being an arrogant design decision. Copy JIRA and make it so I can set
my own logo there, and the logo takes you to the homepage of the
install.

* On the Depended-On-By page, the CSS isn't very good. The heading is
pushed right while the content is pushed left. It should be the other
way around - indenting implies contained rather than container.

* Find Artifact is a bad label. This should be a part of the Search page.

* It's weak that the admin user is called admin - rather than it being
a normal user with an admin flag.

* Reports should be public and open; not an admin feature.

* ... more ... link should be clickable.

* Proxied Repositories link is indented on the left navbar.

* Why are the following the results for 'lang'?

commons-lang 	commons-lang 	2.1
taglibs 	standard 	1.1.2
com.ibm.icu 	icu4j 	2.6.1
opensymphony 	webwork 	2.2.3

* Search results - the column headers are centered but the data is left-aligned.

* No way to edit a repository's data.

* I get errors when trying to index m1 repositories. Here's one from
my local maven repo:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Couldn't find artifact
/Users/hen/.maven/repository/maven/plugins/maven-changelog-plugin-1.9.1.plugin

* For Old Artifacts report, clicking on 'Generate Report' did nothing.
Clicking on Regenerate Report worked, but it lost the 2nd repository.
Mostly this means that showing both of them at the same time is
probably the bug - it confuses and you have to realise that it's a
drop-down.

* The Reports show the Identifier and not the human name.

* Speaking of - what is the point of the identifier? Need to document it.

That'll do for now. I'll try to dig in on the l&f bits and generate
some patches.

Would you like http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Archiva as a
patch for the xdocs/site?

Hen