[Lsb-infrastructure] autobuild statuses

Wichmann, Mats D mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Tue Apr 29 17:34:46 PDT 2008


Let me start by saying this is quite a low priority
compared to some of what's going on.  So it's really
a request for discussion, not a plea for implementation.

I'd be interesting in seeing if we can apply some of
the styles used in the test managers to the various
status pages from autobuilding.  There are a few of
them, there's one style making up three pages:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/appbat/status/bldstat.html
http://www.linux-foundation.org/build/devchk/devchk_status.html
http://www.linux-foundation.org/build/libchk/libchk.html

And there's another page making up the main autobuild status:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/autobuild

It may be there would be more autobuild data we could
present as well - and there's always the autotesting to
think about as we (someday?) get that rolling.

I'm looking at better ways to present this data, and
I'd suggest a three-color dashboard rather than a
two-color, where

green = we know it succeeded
red = we know it failed
yellow = uncertain state
   example:  there is no new build result indicating pass/fail here when
one is expected


I've been very happy with the informational layout in
the test managers, which of course in not just the application
of some css, but also clearly deep thinking about how
most effectively to present the information.

For example, I'm not convinced we couldn't put all of
the information on these four pages into a single page
with some of the same techniques of summarizing at the
top and folding categories (expand-on-click) below to
get more detail.



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