809908 - Create bookmarklet to simplify the TBPL -> 'viewing job on the buildbot master' workflow

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Currently to view a job on the buildbot master, my workflow is:
1) Find job on TBPL
2) Use self-serve link on TBPL
3) Search running builds list on self-serve for job in question & open the page of form https://secure.pub.build.mozilla.org/buildapi/self-serve/try/build/17234145
4) Grab the buildbot master hostname from "claimed_by_name"
5) Work out the port from memory or else cross referencing against http://hg.mozilla.org/build/tools/raw-file/tip/buildfarm/maintenance/production-masters.json
6) Navigate through the buildmaster's list of builders to find the job I want (extremely slow since the grid takes ages to load)

The above could be replaced entirely by a bookmarklet that can be run from TBPL when the job is selected.

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Attachment: Bookmarket v1

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Attachment: Bookmarket v1 - minified

To use, open the attachment in the browser, select-all & drag onto the bookmarks toolbar.

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Note: This doesn't currently support completed jobs, since whilst TBPL stores the buildbot ID in its DB, the UI only has access to the TBPL run ID, once a job has completed. The rebuild button in TBPL currently guesses as to buildbot ID by matching against similar buildernames for that revision (which is sufficient for rebuilds, since we aren't worried about getting the correct job if there were several of them the same).

For v2, we could either try to do something similar (but wouldn't help if there were two identical jobs on that push; unless we start trying to match against datetime), or else alter TBPL to surface the buildbot ID in the UI.

Comment 4

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Another option would be to use https://secure.pub.build.mozilla.org/buildapi/revision/<branch>/<revision>?format=json
eg
https://secure.pub.build.mozilla.org/buildapi/revision/mozilla-inbound/ef57a12da1fe?format=json

It's a per-revision list of jobs I built before self-serve, which would give you access to builds in all states (although it doesn't make sense to link anywhere for pending). There's a html view like the pending/running lists too , just leave off the format arg. If there's anything missing from the data we could look at adding it.

Comment 5

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Attachment: Bookmarket v2

Now supports running+completed (also attempts pending; given that the TBPL UI may just not have updated yet & the job could in fact be running).

Comment 6

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Attachment: Bookmarket v2.1

Comment 7

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Attachment: Bookmarket v2.1 - minified

Comment 8

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Usage:
* Open the minified attachment in-browser.
* Select all & then drag to bookmarks toolbar.
* Use bookmark when on TBPL with a job selected (and connected to BuildVPN).

Comment 9

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Nice! If you get 404's for older jobs that's just the master cleanup for jobs more than 4 days old.

Comment 10

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

(In reply to Nick Thomas [:nthomas] from comment #9)
> Nice! If you get 404's for older jobs that's just the master cleanup for
> jobs more than 4 days old.

Ah, I didn't know that cleanup happened, thank you.

I've added that to the error message in my local copy; I'll hold off updating the attachments here until such time as further changes need to be made.