84229 - showbuilds.cgi should have a text-mode

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Tinderbox2, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

There's no indication at all about the build status apart from the table cell
background color.

Reproduction:
1. Set up Mozilla to ignore colors from websites
2. View <http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey>

Actual result:
The page cannot be interpreted without color, becuase color is the only
indicator for the build success (failed/succeeded).

Expected result:
I can use Tinderbox no matter which browser I use or which settings I use
with it.
E.g. each cell which can be green/yellow/red has some text/character telling the
build status.

Comment 1

[Chris McAfee]

Agreed.  Colors used to be fully saturated, a color-blind user
could not see the difference between ? red and green so we altered
the colors a bit, e.g. green is a little darker now.

Letter-coding this would help, also pattern backgrounds might
also work.  We should address this problem in tbox 2.0 if possible.

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> pattern backgrounds might also work.

No, I might use a text-mode browser. It is content (in fact, the reason why I
visit the page), so it should be in the foreground.

Comment 3

[Chris McAfee]

How about the quickparse argument:

  http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey&quickparse=1

does that workforyou?

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Yeah, that's great, if I want to know, if the tree is clear for checkin. (I
didn't know this mode - thanks.)
But it is way too limited in the information it gives. I still don't know, when
the build broke. And I have to go back to the normal page in order to access the
checkers-in and the logs.
So, it is a workaround with lots of holes - too many holes, if you ask me.

Comment 5

[Chris McAfee]

you want a text mode, resummarizing.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

unsetting version so that Bugzilla specific versions can be removed from the
Webtools Product. 

Comment 7

[Chris McAfee]

moving off untargeted radar

Comment 8

[Chris McAfee]

I believe Ken has solved this in tbox2.  changing component, owner.

Comment 9

[Ken Estes]

The tinderbox2 code was designed to allow the use of text 
based browsers 

 in particular 'links' renders tables nicely 
(http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/)

However we have turned off this feature while demoing the 
tinderbox2 code to make this demo look as much like  tinderbox1
as possible.  

Normally we add hidden characters which are the same color as the
cell background so that they will render on a tty.