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
