[Buildbot-devel] GSoC: Initial thoughts on the Graphs and Data Charts Project

[Prasoon Shukla]

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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Mikhail Sobolev <mss at mawhrin.net> wrote:

> Hi Project,
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:52:48AM +0530, Prasoon Shukla wrote:
> >    @Mikhail:
> >    I hadn't incorporated metrics in my idea because I thought it wasn't
> >    complete. Anyway, I went through that ticket and now I can see that
> >    metrics module already has support for collecting data however it
> cannot
> >    yet:
> >    a. Store the data properly ([1]http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2032),
> I am not sure that this ticket is about storing data (actually, I am not
> sure
> it's metrics related at all).
>
> Yes, that is the wrong bug - I had several browser tabs open at the time
of writing, perhaps I pasted wrongly.


> However I agree that storing metrics data is something that needs to be
> considered here.
>
>
> >    b. Retrieve the stored data in a structured format (We still need to
> rely
> >    on grep).
> I do not quite understand how grep is involved here.
>
Right now, metric data goes into twisted log files. To retrieve this data
in any meaningful manner, we need to use grep (and possibly even awk).

>
> >    So, the minimum possible requirement to using the metrics module
> would be
> >    to actually implement these two features first. I think that I should
> be
> >    able to accomodate these two tasks in my project as well since the
> actual
> >    graph-and-charts project isn't very big in itself. This will, however,
> >    mean that no one would be able to take the metrics project separately
> >    (which shouldn't be a problem - no one has expressed an interest in
> that
> >    project yet).
> >    Would this be acceptable? I mean, should I go ahead and count these
> two
> >    tasks as part of my project?
> My inclination is that this two projects are actually one project.  I'll
> read
> more carefully the ideas for both and return to this.
>
> Yes, there certainly is a large overlap. Thank you for looking into this.
Let me know what you think.

> --
> Misha
>
>
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