[users at bb.net] Sorting of items in console view

[Adam Light]

Hi

I've been a long time user of buildbot eight and am in the process of
upgrading/rewriting for buildbot nine (0.9.7 to be exact).

We have several builders, some of which are triggered by nighlty schedulers
and some by commit-triggered schedulers. We also have force schedulers that
can trigger all of the builders. With eight, we typically monitor the
waterfall page so that we can see the builds in reverse chronological order
and also see where the commits happened in relationship to the builds.

With nine, it seems that the waterfall view no longer shows any information
about the individual commits, though the builds that result from nightly,
force, and commit triggered schedulers can still be viewed in reverse
chronological order.

The console view in nine seems like it would be a good place to monitor
progress except for one thing--the order of the builds isn't reverse
chronological. Instead, all builds that resulted from either the nightly or
force schedulers are at the top, in reverse chronological order. Below
those builds, also in reverse chronological order, are all of the commit
triggered builds. I would like the view to sort strictly in reverse
chronological order for all builds.

In case that isn't clear, here's an example of what it currently shows:

29491 (6 hours ago)
29490 (a day ago)
29488 (2 days ago)
...
Fixed rare crash in foo. (23 minutes ago)
Fixed bug #1234. (a day ago)
Clarified a comment (3 days ago)
....

Instead, I would prefer that it look like this:
Fixed rare crash in foo. (23 minutes ago)
29491 (6 hours ago)
29490 (a day ago)
Fixed bug #1234. (a day ago)
29488 (2 days ago)
Clarified a comment (3 days ago)
...

In the examples above, the builds with just a commit number in the message
were triggered by either the force or nightly scheduler, and the number
corresponds to the Subversion revision of the sources used for that build.
For the others, the actual commit message is displayed.

Thanks for any help you can provide
Adam
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