Re: Adding build status to the package list table

[Roel Janssen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>
>>> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> The list of packages included in Guix [1] provides links to the build
>>>> status of each package in the details.  I would like to provide this
>>>> information in a column after "Package details", either as an icon or as
>>>> a count (e.g. 3/4 builds succeeded).  This provides a nicer overview for
>>>> the current status of the package.
>>>
>>> That’s appealing.  However, it entails NUM-ARCHES × NUM-PACKAGES HTTP
>>> requests, just when loading the page.  That seems unreasonable.
>>
>> Maybe we could instead determine the build status at the time we
>> generate the website's package list?
>
> IMO it wouldn’t be very useful since the list is updated once a day.

Ok. If we can instead fetch the status of all packages on all
architectures in one HTTP request (using javascript on the client-side),
would that be acceptable? The size of the build status information
should be about the same size as the list of packages.

For this we need a supporting API call of course.