Thanks for the feedback! On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:03 PM Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote:
> 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 >
