On 11/14/23 13:23, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 11/14/23 13:12, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
>> On 11/14/23 12:57, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>>> On 11/14/23 12:52, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
>>>> On 11/14/23 12:18, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>>>>> These are useful to spot build failures in different CI systems.
>>>>> For example, documentation build is failing for about 2 months
>>>>> now, the badge might help with spotting the issue earlier.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
>>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Awesome!  One minor comment below though.
>>>>
>>>>>  README.rst | 11 +++++++++++
>>>>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
>>>>> index 74ae22f41..6fb717742 100644
>>>>> --- a/README.rst
>>>>> +++ b/README.rst
>>>>> @@ -5,6 +5,17 @@
>>>>>  OVN
>>>>>  ===
>>>>>  
>>>>> +.. image:: 
>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg
>>>>> +    :target: https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/test.yml
>>>>> +.. image:: 
>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/ovn-kubernetes.yml/badge.svg
>>>>> +    :target: 
>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/ovn-kubernetes.yml
>>>>> +.. image:: 
>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/ovn-fake-multinode-tests.yml/badge.svg
>>>>> +    :target: 
>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/ovn-fake-multinode-tests.yml
>>>>> +.. image:: https://api.cirrus-ci.com/github/ovn-org/ovn.svg
>>>>> +    :target: https://cirrus-ci.com/github/ovn-org/ovn
>>>>> +.. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/ovn/badge/?version=latest
>>>>> +    :target: https://docs.ovn.org/en/latest/
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't this point to https://readthedocs.org/projects/ovn/builds/
>>>> instead?  Like that we'd get redirected to the most recently executed
>>>> builds instead of the last successful docs page.
>>>
>>> Read The Docs suggests to redirect to the built docs, i.e. it generates
>>> a badge code this way.  And it make some sense that the badge that says
>>> 'docs' leads to the project documentation.  But I'll leave it up to you.
>>>
>>
>> I see now that that's the way Read The Docs generates the badge by
>> default.  However, a contributor:
> 
> I think, the main point here is that the link is not for a contributor,
> but for the user who reads the README looking for documentation, so the
> 'docs' button intuitively leads to the project docs, not to the docs build
> status page.
> 

Fair point.

>> a. notices the badge is red
>> b. clicks on the badge link
>> c. gets redirected to https://docs.ovn.org/en/latest/?badge=latest
>> d. AFAICT there's no link there to point to the failing build
>> (https://readthedocs.org/projects/ovn/builds/)
>>
>> We could probably mention the OVN Read The Docs URL in the
>> documentation.rst file but that's not always easy to notice.  I think
>> I'd still prefer the link in the badge to take us to the most recently
>> executed builds.  It would also match what happens for the other badges
>> this patch is adding.
> 
> Quick search on GitHub shows that most projects follow the badge format
> suggested by RTD, i.e. point to the project documentation, instead of
> the docs build status page.  So, changing that may have more friction
> for new users familiar with other projects using RTD.
> 
> Not a strong opinion from my side, if you still prefer the build status
> page, I can change the link.

Let's leave it as is but can we add a link in documentation.rst to point
us to the executed builds?

> 
> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
> 

Thanks,
Dumitru

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