Latest features in autopkgtest-cloud

[dann frazier]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 11:23 AM Florent 'Skia' Jacquet
<florent.jacquet at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> Here is a summary of the latest features that just landed in the
> autopkgtest-cloud web UI, just for you to enjoy:
>
> * All the pages under
> https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/$package_name now have links to
> both Launchpad and the excuses for that given package. Of course, if you
> go down to the https://a.u.c/packages/$package_name/$release/$arch page,
> the links will adapt and point you to the right release page variant for
> Launchpad and excuses.
> Please let me know if you think additional links in this section would
> be useful.
>
> * On that same https://a.u.c/packages/$package_name page, you will now
> find the list of running and queued tests for that package. It's the
> same form as the a.u.c/running page, but filtered, so easier on memory
> footprint, both for the computer and the brain cells. You may find this
> useful to quickly search if a particular trigger for that package has
> already been queued, no matter the release/architecture.
>
> * Finally on the a.u.c/packages/$package_name/$release/$arch page, you
> will now also find the queued and running jobs, but with a more compact
> form, added in the results table. Obviously, some data is lacking in
> that table, thus the many "N/A", but we have no way of finding that
> right now to fill up the gaps, sorry. Also, with the queues being
> absolutely huge right now, you may find that for some packages, you need
> to scroll once or twice to get to the finished results. I hope this will
> not be too disturbing, but if it is for too many people, we may study
> some solutions to offer the choice of hiding those lines, although our
> dynamic web frontend developer skill set is very limited in the team (as
> in "we don't speak JS").
>
> Please find attached a screenshot of the current "glance/noble/ppc64el"
> page as an example. Non-contractual color scheme, as I run dark reader.
>
> Any positive feedback will be most welcome, and for negative feedback,
> let us remind you that we have a bug tracker where you can submit your
> wishlist here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing

As someone who has spent a lot of time lately monitoring different
pages to get the full view of a package, I can say I find these
improvements very welcome! Thanks for the update!

  -dann