on Wed Mar 04 2009, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman-AT-kitware.com> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>> Another new feature in CTest/CDash development heads which may be of 
>>> interest
>>> to Boost is support for subproject labeling. See their main dashboard page 
>>> here:
>>>
>>>   
>>> http://trilinos-dev.sandia.gov/cdash/index.php?project=Trilinos&date=2009-02-27
>>
>> Functionally, it's pretty darned good.  
>>
> Cool!
>> Room for improvement:
>>
>> * I think we'd want a view that's limited to issues, so a subproject
>>   doesn't show up if it's all green (or has only warnings, configurable
>>   according to project).  See
>>   http://www.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/issues.html
>>
> You can do that now from here:
>
> http://trilinos-dev.sandia.gov/cdash/index.php?project=Trilinos&display=project&date=2009-02-27
>
> Click on Show Filters, and you can create a filter that shows only errors, 
> warnings or
> other items that you want.  The idea will be to be able to save the queries 
> and create
> your own custom views for different purposes.

Nice capability; not a great interface.  If I want to see just things
with errors, I need a filter that says

    +------------------+ +------------------+ +--------------------+
    |build errors      | |is not            | |                    |
    +------------------+ +------------------+ +--------------------+
                                                    
>> * It doesn't make good use of space in my browser window unless I make
>>   the browser really narrow.  It would take some design work, but it
>>   would be good to be able to get a bigger picture view at a glance,
>>   especially when the browser window is large.
>>
> We are open to suggestions.  

I'll give it some thought.

> There is a cdash mailing list here:
>
> http://www.cdash.org/cdash/help/mailing.html
>> * It's kinda ugly, but I suppose we can tweak the CSS ourselves.
>>
> Hey!  (we actually hired a graphics designer for that...)

Sorry!

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
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