511103 - add form input to about:buildconfig, "does this build contain this changeset"

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

We should add a HTML form to about:buildconfig where you can paste a changeset ID, and ask hgweb if the build you're currently running contains that changeset ID. This would be useful for QA and nightly testers to verify that their build contains a certain checkin.

We'll need to fix bug 511101 on the server side to provide something to target the form at, of course.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8) (afk until 21st July)]

Please remember to consider non-browsers (which may just display a single page) and xulrunner apps that may have multiple hg repositories.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

The latter is bug 456360. For the former, what do you mean? When you view about:buildconfig in Thunderbird, can you not navigate to another page from there?

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8) (afk until 21st July)]

Bug 456360 wouldn't necessarily be able to easily deal with adding more than one form element and selecting a different repository.

Thunderbird isn't able to navigate from one page to another at the moment (by default). It may become possible later, but then we're also likely to restrict it to one site/scheme - especially for about: pages.