Re: gitweb: cloud tags feature produces malformed XML for errors

> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:18:44PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > > What is most important that makes this feature to be considered for
> > > removal (or rehauling) is that only half of this feature is implemented
> > > in gitweb: the displaying part.  There is half-attempt of providing
> > > some web interface for managing tags... which needs external script with
> > > strict coupling, doesn't offer any access control as far as I know, do
> > > not allow deleting tags, etc.
> >
> > For a small set of repositories the need to hand-edit the tags is OK
> > IMHO.  That's what I intended to do.
> 
> So what would you like to see?
> 
> 1. Hardening parsing of ctags files, so that gitweb does not crash on
>    malformed entries, but e.g. just ignores them.
> 
> 2. Generating tag cloud upfront, before sending any output to browser,
>    to catch error better (and perhaps separate CSS for HTML::TagCloud).
> 
> 3. Describe format of ctags files, either in comments in code, or in
>    gitweb/README.
> 
> 4. Either:
> 
>    A. Remove editing ctags from gitweb, or
>    B. Add some simple generation of ctags file to gitweb
>