[Buildbot-devel] jinja: user customization and public_html?

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 04:54 pm, dustin at zmanda.com wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Marcus Lindblom <macke at yar.nu> wrote:
>>So.. nope, you won't get that by default... but we could probably add
>>chain another ChoiceLoader into there that looks somewhere where the
>>user could put his/her custom HTML, to override specific files. (one, 
>>a
>>few or all.)
>
>That would be cool, and sounds pretty easy.
>>We should probably not fetch custom templates in public_html, as all
>>files there are served statically (albiet that index.html is 
>>overriden).
>>'html_templates' might be a better name for that directory.
>
>So at this point, buildbot really won't serve anything from that
>directory -- save maybe the CSS files?  Should we get rid of
>public_html altogether, in favor of a buildmaster-specific templates/
>dir?  Should the CSS file be in the buildbot templates/ dir instead of
>being installed in public_html?

Sorry, I got lost in the discussion of templates and ChoiceLoaders and 
so forth.  What's the outcome of this for existing installations with 
customized public_html directories (including customized index.html 
files)?

Jean-Paul