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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-05 21:35:12
on Sat Jul 05 2008, "troy d. straszheim" <troy-AT-resophonic.com> wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Fri Jul 04 2008, "Doug Gregor" <doug.gregor-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:02 PM, troy d. straszheim <troy_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>> I did some work on this:
>>>>
>>>> http://boost.resophonic.com/trac/traash
>>>>
>>>> Switched sqlite => mysql, added a few indexes, changed around the views so
>>>> as not to
>>>> render an entire 6k step build/test run at once. Seems a bit snappier.
>>>> Comments
>>>> welcome.
>>> Wow. That's pretty cool, and it seems pretty snappy from here. Is
>>> there a more library-centric view, rather than a build-runner-centric
>>> view?
>>
>> That is pretty awesome responsiveness. As Doug points out, we need to
>> figure out what UI we really need now.
>>
>
> Yeah, we've come full circle. So let's talk. I added a 'narrow to project'
> selector, which allows you to see a summary for only one project, say, serialization:
>
> http://boost.resophonic.com/trac/traash?project=Serialization
>
> (note the new 'narrow to project' selection widget at the top) which would
> presumably be handy for library authors/maintainers.
Cool. Biggest problem so far: it's one-dimensional. This is something
that Bitten gets right, at least:
http://bitten.edgewall.org/build/trunk
You can look at platforms across the top horizontally and see the
testing history vertically.
There's also way too much information in each line.
I think the biggest problem with most of these systems is they default
to showing you lots instead of showing you what you want to know. In
other words, I guess I'm not optimistic we'll get what we want by taking
the original "everything" dump and finding various ways to narrow it
down. I think we need to find out what questions we need to answer and
build /up/ a display that helps us do it.
> But there
> isn't anything like this:
>
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/summary.html
>
> just yet.
Good thing, too. That one also displays way too much. :-)
-- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com