621793 - Reformat aboutNightly in a way that makes nightly users better equipped to test

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Other Applications Graveyard :: Nightly Tester Tools, enhancement)

Description

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Attachment: mockup of the page

The about:nightly page is good promotional material for us, but it's not really usable for most folks. I'd like to suggest some changes in it:

* Show the build id on the top right
* Show a list of informative links that'll be helpful for testing on the right side (in a list)
* Show the atom feed of changes from the last nightly the user was on with the a shortened <id>  (i.e. changeset link) and <title> (i.e. bug id and summary)

Comment 1

[Szabolcs Hubai (:xabolcs)]

I do not know how the atom feed gathering is imagined by aakashd, but there is a little help on an orphaned MDN page [1].


By the way it's needed to show all the changes between pushlog's fromChange and toChange?
Because it wouldn't be trivial.
But if only a subset of change is needed, for example the last 20, 
it would be more easier, because "atom-log" accepts "rev=" parameter.

Anyway, I won't like if my rarely used NTT installations gets showing 100+ changesets in their about:nightly page.
In this case the URL from Open pushlog menuitem could be displayed and clicked,
if user is curious about the older changes.



[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mercurial_FAQ/Filter_a_Mercurial_Changelog_feed_by_Pushlog_directory_paths#Combining_the_feeds_with_Yahoo_Query_Language_%28Yahoo_Pipes%29

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Now tracked by:
https://github.com/mozilla/nightlytt/issues/67