[Buildbot-devel] Template system for HTML views (#342 and 1.0)

[Marcus Lindblom]

Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, how is this going ? Do you have any plans to commit
> 
> Work seems to be proceeding apace at:
> 
>   http://github.com/marcusl/buildbot/commits/jinja
> 
> I'm sure extra eyes and hacking would be helpful!

Sure!

At the moment I'm mostly concerning myself with replacing text 
concatenation with something more intelligent. However, there are a few 
areas that are noticeably lacking when using only a template system 
without some backing system for computing urls from objects.

Currently I just use the existing childLink function and pass that to 
the template, but I'm sure there are better solutions.

My strategy is to do a one-to-one conversion to jinja templates first, 
then, when it's hopefully clearer how the web system hangs together at 
large, see what can be refactored/changed to improve usability.

Work is a bit repetitive but oddly satisfying. ;)

Cheers
/Marcus