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

[Marcus Lindblom]

On 2009-12-20 23:30, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> On 12/20/2009 12:13 PM, Marcus Lindblom wrote:
>> On 2009-12-20 18:08,
>> exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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)?
>>>
>> Hopefully nothing. We could (but don't right now) detect if a custom
>> index.html file exists and serve that. That's all that required to make
>> customized index.html pages served.
>
> Static html files should be served just as before. All that changes is
> the generation of non-static html, including directory views. Existing
> .html files will continue to be sent verbatim over the wire.

I overrode index.html with web.RootPage():

http://github.com/marcusl/buildbot/blob/3694085c4f0bb8db6450dd9b4cf6e08147acaa30/buildbot/status/web/baseweb.py#L584

We need to selectively include that line depending on if index.html is 
on disk or not.

Cheers,
/Marcus