GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

[Rajdeep Bharati]

Thanks for the feedback!

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:03 PM Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> Dear Rajdeep,
>
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 13:33, Rajdeep Bharati wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering what kind of features you would like to have in the new
> waterfall view?
>
> I don't remember whether I ever explicitly said I wanted some new
> features there :)
>
> Probably the only thing I really miss is the portname explicitly seen
> without having to click (or mouse-over) the rectangle.
>
> Way less important:
> - in case the build failed, it would be nice to see which step (first)
> failed, again without having to move the mouse around
> - in case the build is still running, see which step is running (I
> would also say "time since start" or "estimated time to finish", but I
> don't want a ticking timebomb that keeps changing every second, so you
> may safely ignore this)
>
> Generally the old waterfall had all the necessary info displayed. The
> new one is more compact (I would also say not too attractive design,
> but I'm not someone to judge that as I'm not a designer), but is
> basically lacking all the info. If one builds the same thing under the
> same builder that might be fine, but we build something else each time
> and without knowing what was built, those green and red squares are
> basically useless.
>
>
> Some more ideas for thinking. One of the most desperately needed
> features to make buildbot views usable for anything else than "what's
> currently being built" would be to sort (filter) by port name.
>
> Now, port name is something specific to MacPorts, but we could
> probably introduce filtering by any kind of keywords. We could write
> to our master.cfg that we want to create a new filter with name "port"
> and then each port would get a keyword matching its name. Then I could
> ask buildbot to display me history of all builds of port "clang-7.0".
> But then a few months later we might realize that we want to display
> all the failed builds from a particular maintainer. Maintainer is
> again something specific to MacPorts, but we could simply introduce a
> new category "maintainer" on the fly and use the github handles as
> keywords to search for, and I could ask buildbot to display me all
> broken builds belonging to maintainer "mojca" without any changes in
> the buildbot or the view itself, just by slight modification in
> master.cfg. One year later we could add an arbitrary new category that
> we have never even thought of, and be able to filter according to that
> one (maybe: show me all builds of python or perl modules; show me all
> builds with non-free licence; show me all builds from ports fetching
> from git, ...). Those categories could potentially be nested.
>
> Mojca
>
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