GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

[Rajdeep Bharati]

Hi,
I have set up the environment with the react plugin installed and
configured, as you told. You can see the code here
<https://github.com/rajdeepbharati/MacportsCustomBuildbot> and a demo in
the video:

 demo.mov
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GD6LM0EgjXs3lXep3SBUy-AqMfOFx2FJ/view?usp=drive_web>
Regards,
Rajdeep

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:14 PM Rajdeep Bharati <rajdeepbharati13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sounds good to me. Thanks!
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:59 PM Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>
>>
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