diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 69f5f59..b61d14a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,37 +1,7 @@
 VERSION = $(shell git describe --tags)
+BUILDTIME = $(shell date +%Y.%m.%d)
 
-all:
-	@echo to test: 'make test'
-	@echo open test win: 'make tempWin'
-	@echo
-	@echo run this from the autotypist dir:
-	@echo "   GUIRELEASE_REASON=notsure guireleaser"
-	@echo then:
-	@echo "   make prepare-release"
-	@echo then:
-	@echo "   make showNext"
-	@echo "   make doRelease"
-	@echo loop until done
-
-# single: build
-# 	./guireleaser go.wit.com/apps/go-clone --increment --release --reason "testing guireleaser" --dry-run
-# dump:
-# 	./guireleaser go.wit.com/apps/go-clone --increment --release --reason "testing guireleaser" --dry-run --dump-versions
-# single-really-do-it: build
-# 	./guireleaser go.wit.com/apps/go-clone --increment --release --reason "testing guireleaser"
-
-stderr: build
-	echo "writing to /tmp/guireleaser.stderr"
-	./guireleaser >/tmp/guireleaser.stderr 2>&1
-
-prepare-release:
-	reset
-	make list-release-notdone
-	make curl-incrementAllTargetVersions
-	make list-release-notdone
-	make curl-whitelist-stuff
-	make findNext
-	make showNext
+all: build
 
 goimports:
 	goimports -w *.go
@@ -45,14 +15,14 @@ build:
 	echo "build it!"
 	-rm resources/*.so
 	cp -a ~/go/src/go.wit.com/toolkits/*.so resources/
-	GO111MODULE=off go build -v -x -ldflags " \
-                -X main.VERSION=${VERSION}"
+	GO111MODULE=off go build \
+		-ldflags "-X main.VERSION=${VERSION} -X main.BUILDTIME=${BUILDTIME} -X gui.GUIVERSION=${VERSION}"
 
 install:
 	-rm resources/*.so
 	cp -a ~/go/src/go.wit.com/toolkits/*.so resources/
-	GO111MODULE=off go install -v -x -ldflags " \
-                -X main.VERSION=${VERSION}"
+	GO111MODULE=off go install \
+		-ldflags "-X main.VERSION=${VERSION} -X main.BUILDTIME=${BUILDTIME} -X gui.GUIVERSION=${VERSION}"
 
 test: build
 	GUIRELEASE_REASON='test build' ./guireleaser
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 9580677..d4548b5 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ func main() {
 
 	// find myself. the guireleaser directory is used as a working scratchpad
 	// for running go commands that can mess up the go.* files
-	for _, repo := range me.repos.View.AllRepos() {
+	loop := me.repos.View.ReposSortByName()
+	for loop.Scan() {
+		repo := loop.Repo()
 		if repo.GoPath() == "go.wit.com/apps/guireleaser" {
 			if me.release.guireleaser == nil {
 				me.release.guireleaser = repo
@@ -146,7 +148,9 @@ func main() {
 // to the master branch
 func setAllBranchesToMaster() bool {
 	var worked bool = true
-	for _, repo := range me.repos.View.AllRepos() {
+	loop := me.repos.View.ReposSortByName()
+	for loop.Scan() {
+		repo := loop.Repo()
 		if repo.ReadOnly() {
 			continue
 		}
diff --git a/releaseBox.go b/releaseBox.go
index acdcb2b..8b93d19 100644
--- a/releaseBox.go
+++ b/releaseBox.go
@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@ func createReleaseBox(box *gui.Node) {
 		// rather than loop forever, at least limit this to the number of repos
 		// incase something, somewhere, goes wrong
 		duration := repolist.TimeFunction(func() {
-			for n := 0; n <= len(me.repos.View.AllRepos()); n++ {
+			loop := me.repos.View.ReposSortByName()
+			for loop.Scan() {
+				loop.Repo()
 				if doRelease() {
 					log.Info("doRelease() worked")
 				} else {
@@ -179,7 +181,9 @@ func createReleaseBox(box *gui.Node) {
 	grid.NextRow()
 
 	grid.NewButton("git ls-files |grep go.mod", func() {
-		for _, repo := range me.repos.View.AllRepos() {
+		loop := me.repos.View.ReposSortByName()
+		for loop.Scan() {
+			repo := loop.Repo()
 			log.Info("repo:", repo.Name())
 			if repo.Status.ReadOnly() {
 				continue
@@ -275,7 +279,9 @@ func setCurrentRepo(newcur *repolist.RepoRow, s string, note string) bool {
 // todo: redo this logic as it is terrible
 // rename this findNext()
 func findNext() bool {
-	for _, repo := range me.repos.View.AllRepos() {
+	loop := me.repos.View.ReposSortByName()
+	for loop.Scan() {
+		repo := loop.Repo()
 		if repo.Status.IsReleased() {
 			continue
 		}
diff --git a/setTargetVersion.go b/setTargetVersion.go
index 017649f..24388a6 100644
--- a/setTargetVersion.go
+++ b/setTargetVersion.go
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ func setTargetVersion() {
 	// we could rename go.wit.com/widget to go.wit.com/newwidget and restart the versioning
 	// system, but that's rediculous and this servers to always remind me to never make this mistake again
 	var count int
-	for i, repo := range me.repos.View.AllRepos() {
+	loop := me.repos.View.ReposSortByName()
+	for loop.Scan() {
+		repo := loop.Repo()
 		if repo == nil {
-			log.Info("initial scan repo = nil", i)
+			log.Info("initial scan repo = nil")
 			continue
 		}
 
@@ -52,7 +54,9 @@ func setTargetVersion() {
 // trys to figure out if the version needs to be incremented
 func incrementTargetVersion() bool {
 	var count int
-	for _, repo := range me.repos.View.AllRepos() {
+	loop := me.repos.View.ReposSortByName()
+	for loop.Scan() {
+		repo := loop.Repo()
 		if repo.ReadOnly() {
 			continue
 		}