377200 - Aggregate events into rows, no more than one row per N minutes

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: Tinderbox, enhancement)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

This request is for the Tinderbox SW being used on http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=NSS

I don't know if that's component Tinderbox, Tinderbox2, or Tinderbox3.

Presently, as you add systems to a tinderbox page, the page grows both 
horizontally and vertically.  If you double the number of systems, the 
page becomes twice as wide AND twice as tall.  The vertical elongation 
is a problem.  It can get bad enough that the beginning and end of a 
single build/test cycle cannot be seen on the screen together at the 
same time.  IMO, adding systems should not cause such huge amounts of 
vertical elongation.

Presently a separate row is shown in the table for every SECOND in which
an even occurs. The maximum number of rows that can appear in one HOUR is 3600!  
If 5 events happen in 5 successive seconds, they take up 5 rows, which is clearly excessive.  They could all appear in one row.

As of this writing, there are 18 systems contributing results to the page
http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=NSS .  Many of them are 
set to start builds on the hour.  It is not uncommon to see 10 builds start
near the beginning of the hour, more or less simultaneously.  Today, those
10 build starts occur in 10 separate rows, because they do not all start on
the exact same second.  That's ridiculous.  

I propose that all events that occur within a interval all appear in the 
same row.  I propose that the interval be a number of minutes.  It could be
set separately for each Tinderbox page.  I would propose an initial default
of 5 minutes, resulting in no more than 12 rows per hour.

Note that there is NO reason to delay the reporting of any events.  This 
proposal will NOT mean that events are not reported in Tinderbox until 5
minutes after they happen.  Rather, all events that occur in the last 
up-to-5 minute interval of time will appear in the top row of the table.

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Tinderbox isn't maintained anymore. Closing.