> On Sep 14, 2016, at 4:36 PM, Pierre Tardy <tar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Ryan > > nine.buildbot.net has indeed been a mess as we weren't really using it for > something real
FYI it's currently displaying a "502 Bad Gateway" error. > 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. That's an interesting idea but probably doesn't fit our current and planned Buildbot usage. > - 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) Since it sounds like nine.buildbot.net is not representative of what Buildbot 0.9 actually looks like, are there any public production Buildbot 0.9 installations that I can look at? > - 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. That's not the case for us; we're an open source project with developers located throughout the world. > 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. I currently don't have time to do that. Are there at least any screenshots showing off typical versions of the various Buildbot 0.9 screens? Even better would be a set of before-and-after screenshots showing how the various Buildbot 0.8 screens look now in 0.9. > Dont hesitate to give some feedback again. > > Regards > Pierre > > > Le mer. 14 sept. 2016 à 22:21, Ryan Schmidt <build...@ryandesign.com> a écrit > : > > > On Sep 14, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Pierre Tardy <tar...@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. > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@buildbot.net https://lists.buildbot.net/mailman/listinfo/users
