817722 - TBPL should link to talos info page

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tree Management Graveyard :: TBPL, defect)

Description

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

We have some talos information page. It would be nice if TBPL linked to them. It would make it easier for users to find information about our tests.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Buildbot/Talos

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

BenWa, where in the UI would be the most discoverable for you? Help menu?

Jeff/Joel, is the URL in comment 0 the most appropriate landing page we have? (I believe so, just want to confirm)

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> BenWa, where in the UI would be the most discoverable for you? Help menu?

We do have a Legend menu...

Comment 3

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

Legend of the mysterious talos.  :edmorley, the link in comment 0 is good!

Comment 4

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

Option 1) We could have a small ~8*8 pixel 'i' overlay in the bottom left corner of each icon. This may be to distracting however.
Option 2) When you click a test a list of links appears in the bottom right, we could put it here.
Option 3) Legend menu but I feel like most users don't check it.

Perhaps we can create a new wiki page dedicated to this with the format say:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tests#<TBPL Short name>
and do this for all tests.

This way we can fill in the info over time and this can scale when we add new tests. The talos entry could have a friendly description and link to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Buildbot/Talos for more information.

Comment 5

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

(In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > BenWa, where in the UI would be the most discoverable for you? Help menu?
> 
> We do have a Legend menu...

That is the same as the help menu.

Comment 6

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

TBPL has been EOLed (bug 1054977).