GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

[Pierre Tardy]

Great! That was fast!

Lets go harder challenge, then.
How about doing the same with Vue.js?


buildbot-vue-plugin-boilerplate

Pierre

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 6:31 PM Rajdeep Bharati <rajdeepbharati13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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