Purpose

The /builders page should enable users in general to view the current status of the build farm.

Target user audience

• The primary users of this page are technically very adept Launchpad users / administrators.

PPA users also use this page to see how many builders are assigned to PPAs.

Use-cases

Checking the status of the farm

James navigates directly to /builders and sees a table listing all active builders in Launchpad with the following headers:

• Name: the builder unique name.
• Processor: the builder processor name.
• Virtual: whether a builder is virtual or native (Official or PPA)
• Manual: whether a builder is accepting jobs automatically or not
• Status: textual description of the build status (disabled|Building xxx|Idle)

He can order the table inline by any its columns

Finding out how many jobs are in queue

Rob navigates directly to /builders and sees a portlet listing the queue size of each category of builders (Official and PPA) for each existing/supported processors.

Mockup

Known issues

1. <table class="listing sortable"> systematically fails to render the bottom border of its <thead> on firefox.

2. Virtual column needs clarification: We should probably say 'PPA' and 'Official'

3. Mode column also needs clarification: we should probably include this aspect on the status textual description (the problem is that IBuilder.status is already messy and half-broken)

4. The default ordering on the Builder list table (arch, virtualized, name) is suboptimal for this layout.