Regrettably, the site is moving really slowly. We made this for the Rails Rumble earlier this year, in 48 hours. After that, very little time was devoted to the site, since our "real" jobs keep getting us from hacking on this.
If you have any ideas, however, I would encourage you to go and add them to our support system, at http://help.howsmycode.com -- we don't promise to get them implemented right away, but we will look at them :)
Please, forgive me the off-topic (and pedantic) remark, but the extra apostrophe in "What other's are saying", on the site's front page, bothers my grammatical OCD.
Ugh, sorry, that totally passed me. It's fixed and will be up on our next deploy. And I totally support your pedantic off-topic remark, so no worries :)
Not that they shouldn't fix the apostrophe, but, and I'm writing this as a compliment to the team vs a rebuttal to your grammatical complaint; the entire dev team is in Uruguay and all speak nearly perfect English; not a single one is a native English speaker... i for one am impressed and humbled by their total grasp of the language as i try to learn Spanish...
Very cool tool, but I don't like how it automatically marks commits using the repo owner's email address as read. It prevents other people from reviewing code that I write :/ not sure if they've fixed this or not.
I've fallen in love with gerrit for code reviews. Gerrit lets me set up an automerge to the "main trunk" of the development if one person claims it works and two people eyeball the code. It's not a setup for everyone, but for my teams it's been absolutely brilliant.
If you supported auto-merging based on review criteria (preferably a functional test in addition to a code review requirement) I would switch in a heartbeat. Without that, I'll never even look at it.
I'm somewhat bewildered why you require users to provide their real names. I also notice "thou shalt not block our ads" in your TOS. It's understandable from your perspective, but surely a negative from the user's perspective. Note that Opera installs with ad blocking on by default (if I'm not mistaken).
You could use an explicit "Dashboard" button someplace, because otherwise the layout is a bit disorienting after adding your first repo, then wondering how to get back to "that first screen". (I eventually figured that out.)
Otherwise, this seems like a good tool for teams. Good job.
If I'm building an ad-supported site, I don't care about users who unconditionally block ads. Those users clearly don't care about the people who make the sites they're using.
That's beyond silly thinking. I wouldn't click on Ads even if I didn't have Adblock on. I mentally block them out. That means I don't care about the site. Silly silly.
Very cool. If I saw a piece of code in a commit that was bad, is there an easy way to post the updated code in the comment? Maybe also use diffs, gist, etc... and have renditions that can be accepted and auto-merged. Just thinking aloud :) Great job guys!
Nice you guys are liking the tool! I'm another one of howsmycode's developers. As Foca said, please let us know your suggestions in out support system: http://help.howsmycode.com/
hmm, not to sure about automatically showing all commits .. the repo just imported has 4739 and growing, with only mine being marked as reviewed thats alot of initial reading
How about an option on import like "mark all as read" otherwise i see people with massive git projects having a moan.
Hah, actually we have this committed, and will be up on the next push. In any case, we only show the last 5 days of unreviewed changes after an initial import.
It's just a small thing but I think doing a screencast when you're having a cold kind of puts people off. It made me think there was snot on the keyboard.
Regrettably, the site is moving really slowly. We made this for the Rails Rumble earlier this year, in 48 hours. After that, very little time was devoted to the site, since our "real" jobs keep getting us from hacking on this.
If you have any ideas, however, I would encourage you to go and add them to our support system, at http://help.howsmycode.com -- we don't promise to get them implemented right away, but we will look at them :)