[Buildbot-devel] waterfall display, w/ multiple slaves for a builder

[Aaron Maxwell]

Hi all,

If you have multiple slaves assigned to one builder, then in the waterfall 
display, all steps for all slaves show up in a single column for that 
builder. 

What we'd like is to have the different slaves show up in different columns, 
or something like that - just some way to visually distinguish different 
slaves in the waterfall, especially when several of them are running jobs in 
parallel. Is there some way to configure buildbot to do this?

It looks like I might be able to do it by patching the source - in 
buildbot.status.web.WaterfallStatusResource.body(), perhaps by changing the 
lines:

{{{
  for name in builderNames:
    safename = urllib.quote(name, safe='')
}}}

to something like:
{{{
  for name in builderNames:
    # somehow figure out what the slave names are
      for slavename in slavenames:
        safename = urllib.quote(name, safe='')
        # etc.
}}}

I have not tried this yet, it's just an idea.  Is there a better way to 
accomplish it?  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Aaron

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