This project aims to increase the user base of coala and provide a web based interface to use coala on their projects. The project is conceptually built upon various previous projects (coala-gui, coala-html) which have helped us refine, redefine and revisit our GUI approach.

By providing first time users a one click interface to obtain a coafile online and to run coala at coala.io on their projects by two means, by pasting the code in the given editor box, and by pasting the link to their GitHub repository in a link box. This will help them to get started with coala very easily.

The next thing where the project will help us is that it will provide an effective bear search mechanism on coala.io by improving the current one, and this will benefit first time users and developers alike. Its this one tool where we will type the name of language or aspect on which the user wants to do analysis, and the appropriate bears would be filtered and displayed.

For the community, having all the web interfaces and UI elements in one place will provide a great headstart to any web project in the community. Apart from that, this project will help projects.coala.io become configurable. With these implemented, those who have their use cases similar to ours will easily be able to integrate these UI components with just one link, and get a projects page of their own in seconds.

This project will also create a coafile bot. Users will be able to 'mention' the bot name in the issues section of their GitHub repositories, and then this bot will comment back with a coafile for their project. Additionaly it will also make a Pull Request with that coafile. The prototype can be found here and an example issue is here.

Milestones

PREPARATION/BONDING

• Decouple CSS from web projects and create unified library.
• Make code coala compliant in landing-frontend, projects and webServices.
• Add analytics endpoint in webServices to obtain bear click data.
• Finalize enhanced UI mockups for coala Online and coala-html.

CODING PHASE 1

• Add --dir and --sections_only option in coala-quickstart.
• Add backend support for coala Online module on webServices.
• Add backend support for GitHub repository linting on webServices.
• Create frontend for coala Online by creating a JS library using directives from coala-html.

CODING PHASE 2

• Add frontend support for GitHub repository linting on coala.io.
• Implement a coafile bot.
• Make projects repo easily configurable so that other orgs can use it.
• Improve coala Online and GH linting UI based on user feedback.

CODING PHASE 3

• Add CI on landing-frontend, projects and webServices.
• Enhance coala-html UI and Add searching and filtering functionality.
• Solve coala-html#34 and coala-html#33
• Revisit code in landing-frontend, projects and webServices and add tests.