GSOC 2019 project: Improvements of Buildbot views (@ MacPorts)

[Pierre Tardy]

Ouch, and we have https://buildbot.buildbot.net/ which is down
(probably because of that )

looking at it..
Pierre

Le mar. 21 mai 2019 à 15:57, Rajdeep Bharati
<rajdeepbharati13 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi
>
> I am having one issue with the buildbot (I think it's happening after the new webpack PR, but not sure).
> In the navigation menu, `Last Changes` isn't displayed. I have used the same buildmaster that I was using before
> (also tried polling different repositories).
>
> Could you tell me whether everything is okay on my side?
>
> Thanks
> Rajdeep
>
> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 1:32 PM Rajdeep Bharati <rajdeepbharati13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you. Now it's working
>>
>> Rajdeep
>>
>> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 12:29 PM Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The buildbot_badges plugin is using cairo. You can try to uninstall
>>> that to move forward
>>> Pierre
>>>
>>> Le sam. 18 mai 2019 à 07:58, Rajdeep Bharati
>>> <rajdeepbharati13 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I was trying out the webpack PR. Here's what I did:
>>> >
>>> > clone the branch git clone --single-branch --branch www-webpack https://github.com/p12tic/buildbot.git buildbotwebpack
>>> > cd, make virtualenv, activate
>>> > make frontend
>>> > Then outside the directory, I did:
>>> >
>>> > buildbot create-master wpmaster
>>> >
>>> > Now I got the following error:
>>> >
>>> > raise OSError("dlopen() failed to load a library: %s" % ' / '.join(names))
>>> >
>>> > OSError: dlopen() failed to load a library: cairo / cairo-2 / cairo-gobject-2 / cairo.so.2
>>> >
>>> > This is the full stack trace: https://pastebin.com/eDk9GVRK
>>> > There are some answers on SO, but they are using homebrew python (I'm using macports py). I guess that's why they didn't work?
>>> > Could you please help?
>>> >
>>> > Thank you.
>>> > Rajdeep
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 5:20 PM Rajdeep Bharati <rajdeepbharati13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Ok cool!
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks
>>> >> Rajdeep
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:29 PM Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi Rajdeep,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Buildbot calculates the version number based on tags. You you have to
>>> >>> fetch all the tags so that the version is correctly calculated.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> git fetch --tags --all
>>> >>>
>>> >>> then you can re-do the make virtualenv
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Regards
>>> >>> Pierre
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Le mar. 14 mai 2019 à 11:39, Rajdeep Bharati
>>> >>> <rajdeepbharati13 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Thanks for the feedback!
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > I had a doubt in buildbot:
>>> >>> > When I install buildbot from source (github), then why is it showing version 2.1.1dev... installed? Shouldn't it show the latest version (2.3.0)? It is up to date with the master branch.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Thank you.
>>> >>> > Rajdeep
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:17 AM Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 21:00, Rajdeep Bharati wrote:
>>> >>> >> >
>>> >>> >> > Hi,
>>> >>> >> >
>>> >>> >> > I created some issues and found some which would be relevant for the project (as discussed in the IRC meeting):
>>> >>> >> >
>>> >>> >> > https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/4760
>>> >>> >> > https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/4761
>>> >>> >> > https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/4709
>>> >>> >> > https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/3471
>>> >>> >> > https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/3470
>>> >>> >> > https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/4750
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> Thank you.
>>> >>> >> (Nice to see that I'm not the first one requesting these :)
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> I assume that we'll also want to add other items for the rest of the
>>> >>> >> summer to that list?
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> > @Mojca Miklavec Yesterday you mentioned:
>>> >>> >> >>
>>> >>> >> >> 16:33:15 <mojca> regarding the features of the default waterfall view, another problem I saw was that unless one of the builds was done recently, the builder doesn't even show in waterfall; for example, there is no texlive or pplib displayed on https://build.contextgarden.net/#/waterfall
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> And later Pierre said this was a feature :)
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> > However, I am unable to find this problem in https://nine.buildbot.net/#/waterfall (it's showing the builders not having recent builds). I'm not sure (it might have been configured in that manner in nine.buildbot, and not present by default).
>>> >>> >> >
>>> >>> >> > I will try to replicate this issue in my local setup.
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> If you look at
>>> >>> >>     https://build.contextgarden.net/#/console
>>> >>> >> you can see that there is a huge number of "fake commits" from one
>>> >>> >> project (from periodic scheduler) after the last build of another
>>> >>> >> project was done. Maybe there's a setting which tells you how many
>>> >>> >> latest builds / commits to fetch when drawing the waterfall view. I
>>> >>> >> didn't try to investigate what limits the number of displayed
>>> >>> >> builders.
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> Now: for me by far more important missing feature is in fact support
>>> >>> >> for filtering on both console and waterfall. Once filtering and
>>> >>> >> removal of old builders gets implemented, this particular issue will
>>> >>> >> be less important.
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> Mojca