[Buildbot] #2995: Get rid of all the broken / unwired elements from the web UI.

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Mon Nov 3 17:45:42 UTC 2014


#2995: Get rid of all the broken / unwired elements from the web UI.
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Reporter:  Ben     |      Owner:
    Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
Priority:  major   |  Milestone:  0.9.0
 Version:  master  |   Keywords:  web
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 The current state of the web-ui is quite difficult to define: there are a
 few buttons / fields that are present, but that are either not working,
 not linked to anything, or simply to placeholder data.

 Overall, this gives quite a spooky experience, where clicking on an
 element is a sort of random game about "will something happen or not". I
 think we need to get rid of the mockup effect and move toward a working
 interface.

 In the long term, we educate ourself not to pay attention about those,
 which is also a very bad thing.

 The reason why I would like to get a green light about cleaning them up.

 The idea then, is to progressively re-add elements as we implement them
 through.

 Non-exhaustive list of affected elements:
 - the about page (all the placeholders)
 - all the rawdata elements.
 - all columns without values (for example: the "owner" for the builders)
 - the promote and rebuild buttons on the build page

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2995>
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