On 11/14/23 13:31, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
> On 11/14/23 13:23, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> On 11/14/23 13:12, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
>>> On 11/14/23 12:57, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>>>> On 11/14/23 12:52, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
>>>>> On 11/14/23 12:18, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>>>>>> These are useful to spot build failures in different CI systems.
>>>>>> For example, documentation build is failing for about 2 months
>>>>>> now, the badge might help with spotting the issue earlier.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maxim...@ovn.org>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>>> Awesome!  One minor comment below though.
>>>>>
>>>>>>  README.rst | 11 +++++++++++
>>>>>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
>>>>>> index 74ae22f41..6fb717742 100644
>>>>>> --- a/README.rst
>>>>>> +++ b/README.rst
>>>>>> @@ -5,6 +5,17 @@
>>>>>>  OVN
>>>>>>  ===
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> +.. image:: 
>>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg
>>>>>> +    :target: https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/test.yml
>>>>>> +.. image:: 
>>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/ovn-kubernetes.yml/badge.svg
>>>>>> +    :target: 
>>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/ovn-kubernetes.yml
>>>>>> +.. image:: 
>>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/ovn-fake-multinode-tests.yml/badge.svg
>>>>>> +    :target: 
>>>>>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/ovn-fake-multinode-tests.yml
>>>>>> +.. image:: https://api.cirrus-ci.com/github/ovn-org/ovn.svg
>>>>>> +    :target: https://cirrus-ci.com/github/ovn-org/ovn
>>>>>> +.. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/ovn/badge/?version=latest
>>>>>> +    :target: https://docs.ovn.org/en/latest/
>>>>>
>>>>> Shouldn't this point to https://readthedocs.org/projects/ovn/builds/
>>>>> instead?  Like that we'd get redirected to the most recently executed
>>>>> builds instead of the last successful docs page.
>>>>
>>>> Read The Docs suggests to redirect to the built docs, i.e. it generates
>>>> a badge code this way.  And it make some sense that the badge that says
>>>> 'docs' leads to the project documentation.  But I'll leave it up to you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I see now that that's the way Read The Docs generates the badge by
>>> default.  However, a contributor:
>>
>> I think, the main point here is that the link is not for a contributor,
>> but for the user who reads the README looking for documentation, so the
>> 'docs' button intuitively leads to the project docs, not to the docs build
>> status page.
>>
> 
> Fair point.
> 
>>> a. notices the badge is red
>>> b. clicks on the badge link
>>> c. gets redirected to https://docs.ovn.org/en/latest/?badge=latest
>>> d. AFAICT there's no link there to point to the failing build
>>> (https://readthedocs.org/projects/ovn/builds/)
>>>
>>> We could probably mention the OVN Read The Docs URL in the
>>> documentation.rst file but that's not always easy to notice.  I think
>>> I'd still prefer the link in the badge to take us to the most recently
>>> executed builds.  It would also match what happens for the other badges
>>> this patch is adding.
>>
>> Quick search on GitHub shows that most projects follow the badge format
>> suggested by RTD, i.e. point to the project documentation, instead of
>> the docs build status page.  So, changing that may have more friction
>> for new users familiar with other projects using RTD.
>>
>> Not a strong opinion from my side, if you still prefer the build status
>> page, I can change the link.
> 
> Let's leave it as is but can we add a link in documentation.rst to point
> us to the executed builds?

Sounds like a separate change. :)

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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