[Buildbot-devel] Showing subsets of builders in Waterfall status page

[Roy S. Rapoport]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:24:59AM -0700, Brian Warner wrote:
> You can add 'show=' query arguments to the URL to cause the Waterfall display
> to only show selected builders. For example, if your waterfall lives at
> http://example.org:9002/, then you could show just the 'trunk' builder with
> "http://example.org:9002/?show=trunk", and you could show just the 'trunk'
> and 'docs' builders with "http://example.org:9002/?show=trunk&show=docs".
> (HTTP separates the query arguments from the main URL with a "?", and
> separates query arguments from each other with "&").
> 
> Of course, you can have a separate HTML page which contains HREFs to these
> URLs so your users don't have to remember them.

That's what we did here, with minor enhancements -- we added a 'match' arg
that works much like 'show' but lets you specify a subset of the builder's
name; we also provide a table that's dynamically generated by buildbot (a
customized HTML target) that basically gives the user a table of links --
each row is a category, and each column is a different way to display/get
the information -- waterfall, grid, text, or RSS.  

Speaking of this, BTW, I added RSS to our buildbot pages yesterday.  I
continue to be absolutely delighted by the ease of bolting on new
functionality.  It took me more time to research RSS format than to
actually implement it in buildbot.  It's a joy to work with it.

-roy