Re: Adding build status to the package list table

[Roel Janssen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> The list of packages included in Guix [1] provides links to the build
>> status of each package in the details.  I would like to provide this
>> information in a column after "Package details", either as an icon or as
>> a count (e.g. 3/4 builds succeeded).  This provides a nicer overview for
>> the current status of the package.
>
> That’s appealing.  However, it entails NUM-ARCHES × NUM-PACKAGES HTTP
> requests, just when loading the page.  That seems unreasonable.

Maybe we could instead determine the build status at the time we
generate the website's package list?

That would entail NUM-ARCHES × NUM-PACKAGES HTTP requests just once
every time we generate the page.   I believe this is once a day.  Can
Hydra handle this amount of HTTP requests?