Re: [edk2-devel] EDK II Maintainers - EDK II CI is now active on edk2/master

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

Hello Mike,

On 01/06/20 19:17, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> Laszlo,
> 
> Sorry for the delay in getting to these PactchCheck.py updates.
> I know it is frustrating to be blocked by these types of issues.
> I try to look at 2406 tomorrow.

Thanks!

> I think the manual override is
> potentially more complex to implement than the requested changed
> to PatchCheck.py.

OK.

> 
> You were on the correct link.  If you clicked one more level on
> "Bash exited with code '255'" link on that web page, it takes you
> to the patch check log that shows 3 errors for commit message
> subject lines being too long.
> 
> https://dev.azure.com/tianocore/edk2-ci/_build/results?buildId=3459&view=logs&j=12f1170f-54f2-53f3-20dd-22fc7dff55f9&t=9c939e41-62c2-5605-5e05-fc3554afc9f5&l=149

Thanks for this info as well. I have two comments, one specific and one
general ("rambling").

(1) The specific comment: the above link does not work for me. I get:

  An unexpected error has occurred within this region of the page.
  You can try reloading this component or refreshing the entire page.

with two buttons:

  [Refresh page] [Reload component]

Neither helps -- the result is the same. Then, if I click "Show more
info", I get:

  Error: 'block' member of ScrollIntoViewOptions 'center' is not a valid
  value for enumeration ScrollLogicalPosition.
  Stack
  in i in t in div in t in li ...


The result is the same if I start with the link from yesterday:

https://dev.azure.com/tianocore/11ea4a10-ac9f-4e5f-8b13-7def1f19d478/_build/results?buildId=3456

and then indeed click the "Bash exited with code '255'" link.


Worse, even the github.com link that I posted myself yesterday:

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/272/checks?check_run_id=375969977

has stopped working now. Apparently failed CI runs are superseded by
successful ones, and we can no longer refer to historic failures. This
is not very helpful (in particular for the CI system's developers, I'd
think!).


(2) The general comment. In the old [X]HTML days, a button looked like a
button, and a link looked like a link. Today, on the Modern Web (TM),
visual cues as to whether a UI element is "active" or not, are
unpredictable. To me anyway. There are too many colors, and the active
elements frequently lack a consistent trait -- even within a single web
page -- that advertises "I'm active, click me", without the user
hovering over them with the mouse pointer.

My question here is whether this is
- just me,
- my background (~ textual terminals),
- my generation (Gen X, let's say).

I feel like UI design has fallen off a cliff in recent years.

(Bonus offense: text that cannot be selected for copy & paste. For
example, I cannot highlight the "Bash exited with code '255'" link, for
copying that caption into this email. I have to re-type it manually.)

Thanks
Laszlo