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Re: [opensuse-buildservice] delays in web UI updates
- From: Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:38:18 +0200
- Message-id: <20070806113817.GO1366@xxxxxxx>
On Aug 06, 07 10:43:25 +0200, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> > > On Sunday 05 August 2007 14:42:10 wrote John Pye:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> In the Build Service Web UI, it seems to me that there is often quite a
> > >> lag between making changes to one of the files (eg a .spec file) and
> > >> seeing the correctly updated status for the packages changing to
> > >> 'building' or 'queued' or whatever.
> > >>
> > >> Often I find myself hitting the 'trigger rebuild' button in this case,
> > >> but I still don't see any update being shown.
> > >
> > > as written before, it is the scheduler you need to wait for.
> >
> > My concern is that the web interface doesn't even tell the user that
> > they need to wait for the scheduler (or even that such a thing exists).
> >
> > I understand that you are dealing with the scheduler in some kind of
> > asynchronous way. But there is just nothing about the web interface that
> > tells the user that the request has been received: it's a open-loop user
> > interface.
>
> Yes, I agree, but I think it is not easy to implement this, since the
> scheduler is actually trying to find out what is affected by the changes.
Adrian, I believe John would accept that the scheduler takes some time to
actually start rebuilding. Je obviously was mislead by the UI into thinking
that his rebuild requests are being ignored.
I agree with John that this is an issue with UI software design.
John, please prefer the reload button over the rebuild trigger.
cheers,
Jw.
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> > > On Sunday 05 August 2007 14:42:10 wrote John Pye:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> In the Build Service Web UI, it seems to me that there is often quite a
> > >> lag between making changes to one of the files (eg a .spec file) and
> > >> seeing the correctly updated status for the packages changing to
> > >> 'building' or 'queued' or whatever.
> > >>
> > >> Often I find myself hitting the 'trigger rebuild' button in this case,
> > >> but I still don't see any update being shown.
> > >
> > > as written before, it is the scheduler you need to wait for.
> >
> > My concern is that the web interface doesn't even tell the user that
> > they need to wait for the scheduler (or even that such a thing exists).
> >
> > I understand that you are dealing with the scheduler in some kind of
> > asynchronous way. But there is just nothing about the web interface that
> > tells the user that the request has been received: it's a open-loop user
> > interface.
>
> Yes, I agree, but I think it is not easy to implement this, since the
> scheduler is actually trying to find out what is affected by the changes.
Adrian, I believe John would accept that the scheduler takes some time to
actually start rebuilding. Je obviously was mislead by the UI into thinking
that his rebuild requests are being ignored.
I agree with John that this is an issue with UI software design.
John, please prefer the reload button over the rebuild trigger.
cheers,
Jw.
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