[Buildbot-devel] console and waterfall views for Nine

[Kevin Funk]

On Friday 25 April 2014 09:52:37 Jared Grubb wrote:
> Welcome to the project András!
> 
> I'm excited for both our GSoC projects this year, and you certainly have a
> cool one!
> 
> The waterfall view is a popular part of buildbot (to Dustin's dismay :) and
> updating it for nine is going to be a fun project I think. My personal
> wishlist for the waterfall page (besides making sure we have one in nine,
> which is the first step) is: * dynamically updating
>  * able to show parallel builds side-by-side (currently, if a builder has
> two builds going at the same time, they get stacked, which is weird). This
> could be tough if you have a lot of builds happening on one builder, but
> would be interesting to address that issue. * More friendly views:
>     * Show less information.
>     * Less whitespace
> 
> I'd be curious to hear others on the last two. I feel like I spend way too
> much time scrolling in the waterfall view. It is both too sparsely
> populated (lots of whitespace between things) and at the same time way too
> full of things (many builds all crammed together, with way too much text).
> It seems that we could hide a lot of redundant information, and maybe fudge
> the time axis to let things be closer together. Maybe there's a "zoom out"
> that lets you see things at a very high level with rollovers that let you
> dive in when you find something interesting.
> 
> I dont know, that's my idea dump.
> 
> Jared
>
> (snip)

I have one item on my wish-list here.

Please try to make use of categories on the waterfall page in Nine, in some 
way. E.g. by displaying a summary view of categories first, then the actual 
waterfall view when clicking on a specific category. That alone could fix the 
scrolling issue in multi-project setups.

Note: Our company currently has around >100 builders in >20 categories -- you 
can imagine that this results in a huge waterfall view in case no category 
filter is set. I find myself scrolling horizontally a lot.

Disclaimer: I hope you didn't get rid off the category attribute in Nine :)

Greets

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