'request builds' action on recipes is very complex

[Robert Collins]

It seems to ask a bunch of information that the daily build doesn't need - it would be nice to just have a single 'I know this has changed in an interesting way please build it now without me needing to wait a whole day'.

Possibly this could be in the list of recipes rather than in the individual recipe - that would have been convenient, but not needed.

Possibly better still, clicking on build recipe could bring up an ajax dialog with some prose and an 'advanced' expander or something.

[Aaron Bentley (abentley)]

There are more use cases than "I know this has changed in an interesting way". There are also, "I'd like to try this with a new distroseries to see if it works" and "I want to build this into the release, not dailies, PPA".

We could hide the distroseries selection, but the archive selector doesn't use the daily_build_archive setting, so if we hid it, users would have no way to select the archive.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

It would be interesting to get statistics on which is the most common
case; we could use an expander to hide the options that are not needed
in the most common case (or perhaps just not needed in the simplest
case : because new users may not be the most common but are perhaps
most likely to be confused).

Perhaps some prose in the dialog would help as well 'the default will
make a new build as the recipe specifies in the same way that the
daily automatic build does'.

[Aaron Bentley (abentley)]

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On 12/08/2010 05:47 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> Perhaps some prose in the dialog would help as well 'the default will
> make a new build as the recipe specifies in the same way that the
> daily automatic build does'.

But as I've said, it doesn't default to using all the same settings as
daily builds. So that would be a lie.

And this recipe may be used only for on-demand builds, so assuming that
daily builds are enabled may be a false and confusing assumption.

Aaron
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