Re: Adding build status to the package list table

[Ludovic Courtès]

Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> IMO it wouldn’t be very useful since the list is updated once a day.
>
> Ok. If we can instead fetch the status of all packages on all
> architectures in one HTTP request (using javascript on the client-side),
> would that be acceptable? The size of the build status information
> should be about the same size as the list of packages.

This would be OK, yes.  We just need to make sure Hydra executes said
request in a reasonable amount of CPU time.

Thanks,
Ludo’.