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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 27 January 2010 04:12:46 Tim Penhey wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> I'm trying to work out which bits need to be worked on next, at least from
>  the code-team point of view.
> 
> You mentioned that Michael Nelson is going to be doing some initial use
>  case work feeding in to some mock-ups.
> 
> What do you see as the first use case?  We tend to think of "user wants to
> create a daily build of package x".  How are we wanting to present this to
>  the user?  I guess this is part of what Michael will be looking at.
> 
> Are there any other infrastructural things that we are blocked on?  Is it
>  now just workflow and UI work?
> 
> Tim
> 

Hi

I think the next use case is to put a button on the branch page to initiate a 
build.  The underlying code to do this is mostly in place so it would be a 
really nice piece of UI work to make everything we did in Wellington a lot 
more visible.  You've also been asking me about that since Barcelona last May 
:)

Once that's done we need a UI and API that will manage build schedules of 
packages.  This might be better as a single page rather than just doing it on 
each package page (or both, actually).  Discussions on this subject are 
welcome.

We also need a back end to manage the initiation of the automated builds.  
That would be a cron job or a daemon to monitor the schedules and start the 
builds as appropriate.

In terms of blockers, there's a few branches to land, notably one from Jono 
and Aaron, and a few annoying bugs to clear up.  We also have one major 
scalability blocker on the buildd-manager but that doesn't come into play yet, 
so you're good to go for now.

J