Re: Adding build status to the package list table

[Ludovic Courtès]

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.

Ludo’.