[users at bb.net] buildbot 0.9.0 rc3

[Pierre Tardy]

Hi Ryan

nine.buildbot.net has indeed been a mess as we weren't really using it for
something real

I am currently changing that and it is currently being setup with
buildbot_travis.
It shows you roughly what nine looks like, but really the setup might be
very different depending on your configuration.

buildbot travis is an experimental buildbot setup that focuses on having
the UI directly in github or gerrit rather than in buildbot itself, this is
why it might be a little bit confusing.
People are supposed to be pointed at buildbot only when there is a failed
build, and directly in the problematic page.

- The deploy panel is a featureof buildbot travis that we dont use in this
instance, this is why it shows nothing. It is first as this is indeed the
main page where people are supposed to go with buildbot travis if they are
going to the UI directly.

- The settings page you are seing are indeed administration pages (again
from buildbot_travis), I think this is indeed a good idea to put them
separately in an admin
and the settings, thanks for the feedback.
- console view is not enabled in buildbot_travis, because it is not adapted
to the buildbot_travis process (waterfall view shall be disabled as well
actually)

- page load time is indeed a problem especially if you have high latency to
the master, this is something people usually dont see as they are often
located near the master. this is why this problem was not fixed for the
0.9.0 release.

The migration guide is hosted within the documentation and is pointed to at
the first paragraph of the release note:
http://buildbot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/installation/nine-upgrade.html#upgrading-to-nine

I would suggest to try to do the migration for your master.cfg and see how
it feels for you own setup.
Dont hesitate to give some feedback again.

Regards
Pierre


Le mer. 14 sept. 2016 à 22:21, Ryan Schmidt <buildbot at ryandesign.com> a
écrit :

>
> > On Sep 14, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am very happy to announce the release of buildbot 0.9.0 rc3.
> >
> > Thank you for helping testing rc1 and rc2.
> >
> > Only one rarely seen user visible bug was fixed for this release.
> > So I expect it to be the last rc, and probably be pushed as is as the
> v0.9.0.
> >
> > The most notable change is a new feature though.
> >
> > As already discussed in the mailing list and weekly meetings, we added
> an opt-out usage data collection to buildbot, so that we can have a better
> idea of what our installation base looks like.
> >
> > Even if you are not affected by the fixes, please upgrade to rc3, so
> that we can release buildbot nine with the confidence that it has been
> installed on a fair amount of systems.
> >
> > As usual, you can find the release notes for complete list of what's new.
> > http://buildbot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/relnotes/0.9.0rc3.html
> >
> > And also the relnotes for nine as a whole compared to eight:
> > http://buildbot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/relnotes/0.9.0.html
> >
> > Don't forget to use the latest version of pip
> > pip install -U pip
> >
> > The packages are available on pypi, but as they are release candidates,
> you have to use the --pre option of pip.
> >
> > pip install -U 'buildbot[bundle]==0.9.0rc3' --pre
> >
> > Please continue the great move and adopt buildbot nine!
>
> I guess I'm surprised Buildbot 0.9 has reached RC stage. I've been
> checking http://nine.buildbot.net for awhile, and I've never seen
> anything familiar there. I kept hoping it would change to look more like
> 0.8 as development continued, but that doesn't appear to have happened. It
> does not resemble the 0.8 installation we've been using for years in any
> way that I can see. I don't know how to use this, and I can't imagine
> asking my users to figure out this interface either. I don't see a grid
> view or a console view. The waterfall view doesn't load properly in Safari
> unless I then resize the window, and even then I don't know what to do with
> it. It seems to take 2 or 3 clicks to get information that was available at
> a glance with 0 clicks on 0.8. The left navigation is confusing. (What's
> "Deploy", why's it first, and why doesn't it have anything in it?) Pages
> take a long time to load, with all of the asynchronous data they're
> loading. 6 out of the 7 settings screens say "You shall not pass!" "need
> admin rights to access administration panels" (I wasn't trying to access
> administration panels; I was trying to explore the settings.)
>
> Even if I did want to upgrade, the migration guide is empty, so I don't
> know how: http://trac.buildbot.net/wiki/NineMigrationGuide
>
> I'm just very confused by the direction Buildbot is taking in 0.9.
>
>
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