I am trying to make some extra web pages for a test buildbot, since I am planning to have one running my project.
Practically I would like to have a waterfall page that show the button to build a specific builder, close to the build name, instead than in the builder page only. I would also like to have some reference documents loaded from inside the builder work folder, and from other locations on the slave machine; using buttons to display or hide them.
I’ve looked at the manual and I do not see any info about how do you customize or create new html pages, that can leverage on the Buildbot features (like the templates already included with Buildbot do).
I have opened some pages, and see that there are some html files that actually has non-html code statements like
% macro
% for
And so on. I am not a web programmer so I am quite clueless about what should I look for. Tried to google the word macro for HTML and I just got a bunch of results related to Wiki customization; it does not look like it is Python language so I am quite lost.
Is there anyone that was successfully able to make custom pages for the buildbot, and could give me some pointers about what to learn?
Buildbot uses jinja2 for templating, the jinja2 homepage has some nice documentation. This is where the non-html statements come from. I found google’s chromium buildbot to be a good starting point, when learning about buildbot customization.