[users at bb.net] metadata properties

[Pierre Tardy]

That is interresting usecase indeed.

It is hard to create a UI that addresses all the scales. I think you arn't
doing anything wrong, but you are doing unusual things.

I think you can use a custom buildpage template.
I would not advice to build you own custom web UI, as this is eventually a
lot of work, and that would contribute to the fragmentation of buildbot.

What we support is custom templates: via the custom_templates_dir of
c['www']
*http://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/cfg-www.html
<http://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/cfg-www.html>*

You would need to customize the buildpage, and probably also the
buildsummary In order to create what you are asking, probably also you
would need a customcss, which I think is not possible yet. Another idea for
a contribution! :)


Le jeu. 4 févr. 2016 à 22:07, Greg MacDonald <gmacdonald at trionworlds.com> a
écrit :

> Hi Pierre,
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> Attached are some png screenshots. It’s just very spammy and I’m not sure
> how I should be using the name and describe properties. There’s also a mix
> of old style operations that have both descriptionDone and regular
> description. The new ones take a list of short descriptions. It’s
> complicated and I’m not sure what to do.
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> What you’re seeing is name set to a sentence and description and
> descriptionDone not set at all. This ends up being less spammy than when I
> had the descriptions set. Before I had name set to foo_bar but that tended
> to not add anything of value IMHO.
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> Thx for taking a look.
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> -Greg
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> *From:* Pierre Tardy [mailto:tardyp at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 04, 2016 10:44 AM
> *To:* Greg MacDonald; users at buildbot.net
> *Subject:* Re: [users at bb.net] metadata properties
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> Hi Greg,
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> Could you share one or two screenshot showing your issues, because I have
> to admit I am a little bit lost understanding what you are trying to
> achieve.
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> Le jeu. 4 févr. 2016 à 01:37, Greg MacDonald <gmacdonald at trionworlds.com>
> a écrit :
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> So I’ve switch to using the name step attribute as a sort of title for
> each build step and it looks a lot nicer. I’ve also cleared the two
> description attributes because I’m not sure what they add. Maybe it’s best
> to let the base classes put info in there? Still feels like these should be
> in a metadata attribute to me.
>
> -Greg
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> *From:* users [mailto:users-bounces at buildbot.net] *On Behalf Of *Greg
> MacDonald
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 03, 2016 1:54 PM
> *To:* users at buildbot.net
> *Subject:* [users at bb.net] metadata properties
>
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
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> For the build UI page I don’t understand why the a class property is used
> as the main line for the build step. My users don’t care that it’s a p4
> step or a shell command, they’d rather see something like, “Generating
> Meshes” and pretty much only that with some timing info and status. They
> also don’t care about build properties. But I need that info while I work
> with the system. Same goes for the skip/hide properties. I’m setting some
> properties to large lists which end up printing text all over the screen in
> a very ugly manner. I could hide it, but I need that info.
>
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> So I’m going to have to rewrite this for our purposes, which is fine. I’m
> really starting to enjoy coffeescript and angular. But it leads me to think
> that perhaps visual properties like step descriptions, skips, and hides
> should be kept separate from the main system. Someone could rewrite the
> entire UI and then those properties end up being unnecessary. I think some
> separation of concerns might be good. How about we add an optional metadata
> property which contains a dictionary? The web pages could pick it up and
> use it for whatever they needed. It decouples things and allows third party
> UI to have their users add per step properties, or any of the objects in
> the data model.
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> On a related note the issue I had with builder names being restricted to
> 20 characters with the dataService api wouldn’t matter so much. And having
> an internal terse name makes it easier for me to develop as well, saving
> the flowery more verbose stuff for the visuals.
>
>
>
> -Greg
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