[Buildbot-devel] Few buildbot improvements

[tom fogal]

Marcus Lindblom <macke at yar.nu> writes:
> On 2010-04-10 22:24, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> >> b) Add some UI improvements: 1) Build's progressbar 2) Build's per-step ti
> me
> >> chart. Without diving into details of why/what/how the progressbar/charts
> >> could be implemented, first of all, I'd like to ask what's the project's
> >> attitude towards embedding any JavaScript library(jquery-ui, raphaeljs.com
> ,
> >> or any other...) into the front-end? I know that's an important
> >> ethical-philosophical issue to choose between usability/sleek look and
> >> purism, but as some of the python's world
> >> (namely http://djangoadvent.com/1.2/jquery-admin/) already sold their soul
> s
> >> for usability/sleek look, maybe that's not that evil thing to do after all
> ?
> >> :)
> >
> > The UI additions sound great!  Marcus was the prime force behind the
> > web frontend at this point, so I will defer to his opinion on adding
> > JS.  I have no objections.
> 
> jQuery rocks! So I'm perfectly ok with using that.

FWIW, I'd prefer if this was done in a way that browsers w/o javascript
get the site as it is now.

-tom