Early in 2023, we were feeling that the DeepSource dashboard was getting peppered with small issues and papercuts aplenty - caused sometimes by oversight, and sometimes, just as bugs we had missed fixing. During the sprint to clean up paper cut issues, we also decided to make visual refinements to a bunch of existing features - and thus was born the Mimir update : a collection of smaller features, bug fixes, and interface refinements.

<aside> 🗿 In Norse mythology, Mímir is a figure associated with wisdom and knowledge. He is often described as a wise being or god who possesses great intelligence. Learn more ↗

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New Repository Overview

We overhauled our existing repository overview to make it leaner and use the space available to us, better. Here is what it used to look earlier -

There were multiple issues with this version of the overview page -

• The header took up a lot of space, and in the sub-pages of a repository where you needed to show more information, the header height was a major blocker in getting more screen real estate.
• The info panel on the right side of the header, though sometimes helpful, often became a distraction when analysis used to run. It also forced us to keep the header tall enough to accommodate the 3 lines of information.
• Users only used 4-5 widgets at a time, whereas we allowed them to pin up to 8 widgets for a quick scan of their code quality parameters. This led to significant space getting wasted.
• The Code quality overview chart was rendered obsolete when we launched Reports → we replaced the code quality chart, along with the Recent runs component with 4 pinned reports. Read more about Reports and the pinned reports features - → Reports and Insights → Pinned reports

To fix the issues mentioned above, we launched a new, cleaner look for repository overview 👇

• The number of widgets was capped at 6 instead of the previous 8.
• We also show information regarding the Analyzers scanning the repository, issues prevented, and the default branch that gets scanned.
• We added 4 pinned reports that tell you how the code quality of your repository is evolving over time.

Watch below to see how pinned reports work 👇