631293 - change status number for strings on buildapi

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Armen [:armenzg]]

For https://build.mozilla.org/buildapi/recent/talos-r3-leopard-009
and https://build.mozilla.org/buildapi/recent
we have numbers/bg colours to represent status:
1/green - means SUCCESS
2/red - means FAILURE
3/orange - means WARNING
which are known to most people but we have other codes which are not that clear to developers.
5/grey - I think it means RETRY.

Could we add a legend or substitute the numbers for a string?

Added ehsan as he was tooooooooo lazy & slow to file this simple bug so I decided he would still be like that to even CC himself :P

Comment 1

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

ITYM

0/green - SUCCESS in buildbot
1/orange - WARNING - test failure
2/red - FAILURE - compilation failure (and any infra exceptions we don't have in 4 yet)
4/purple - EXCEPTION - something failed with the slave or the infra it talks to
5/grey - RETRY - generally as a result of something that caused a EXCEPTION

These are defined at
http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot/file/9fef016867c7/master/buildbot/status/builder.py#l25

With the exception of RETRY these all the same as used on TBPL/Tinderbox. So does this boil down to 'please add a legend' ?

Comment 2

[Armen [:armenzg]]

legend should be good enough.