GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

[Pierre Tardy]

Hi Rajdeep,

Sorry if I have not been clear.
The project I have linked is quite a large project which will actually
takes several summer in order to finish. What I meant is that it would be
good for synergy if we have another student on that project, as this is on
the same domain, and you could work with him/her to share your findings and
best practices.

You can start working on macport custom buildbot UI without waiting for
this project, and we can start working on that in modern javascript of
typescript if needed.

uglycoyte did a poc which you can find here:
https://github.com/uglycoyote/buildbot-react-plugin-boilerplate

I am not sure of the state of the PoC.
I suggest you as a welcome challenge to build yourself a buildbot
environment, with the react plugin installed in, displaying "hello from
Rajdeep's Buildbot"

Would that work for you?

Regards
Pierre
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:53 AM Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have our own GSoC project to transition the UI from coffeescript:
>
> https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/wiki/Buildbot-GSoC-Projects-2019#transition-web-uis-data-module-from-coffeescript-to-typescript
> The ideal would be to have one student for each project.
>
> All the pointers are there. I would be happy to help on either project.
>
> Regards,
> Pierre
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:41 AM Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Rajdeep,
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 19:55, Rajdeep Bharat wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello, I am Rajdeep, a GSoC aspirant.
>> > I was going through the Buildbot views project and had a few doubts:
>> > - Do I need to work on the dashboards SPA of buildbots (
>> https://github.com/buildbot/guanlecoja-ui) and rewrite it using a modern
>> library like React?
>> > - I have read this ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55978. Do
>> I have to implement them separately in a MacPorts repository of buildbot,
>> or do it in upstream directly?
>> >
>> > I am familiarizing myself with the buildbot codebase and would love to
>> start contributing.
>> > Can someone tell me if I'm on the right track?
>>
>> Thank you very much for reaching to us. I still owe you the response
>> to the earlier email, but let's start with this one.
>>
>> The "buildbot idea" would be (co)mentored by someone from the Buildbot
>> development team for the technical part ("How to do it?"), while the
>> MacPorts mentor would help to steer towards the desired goal ("What to
>> do?").
>>
>> So I would like to ask Pierre to explain the technical part in more
>> details.
>>
>> (Pierre, how does the unfinished Coffeescript to Typescript conversion
>> of the core affect designing new views and their "future-proof-ness"?)
>>
>> What I want to say from the MacPorts point of view is that what mainly
>> kept us from switching to buildbot version beyond 0.8.x was a less
>> user-friendly waterfall view. We kept postponing the switch since the
>> time the buildbot was still at version 0.9.x. Now it's already at 2.x,
>> and it would be about a high time that we do the upgrade. The existing
>> buildbot setup was written in cca. 3 days during our in-person
>> developer meeting in 2016, and then slightly improved over time.
>>
>> The changes would be added wherever it makes the most sense. If
>> there's some view that's specific to MacPorts, we would keep it
>> locally, while any other change that's considered useful for any
>> buildbot user would best be pushed to their own repository (and
>> reviewed by the buildbot development team).
>>
>> I wanted to add that this project is well related to the "collection
>> of build statistics" idea. I will elaborate on this later, but we
>> definitely need changes in the buildbot configuration to make it
>> easier for our (hopefully) future web application to talk to the
>> buildbot master.
>>
>> Mojca
>>
>>
>> Mojca
>>
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