It isn't very useful, as you have to know the commits. Now that there's Git
branch information, it should be possible to access this in a more useful way.
To the compare/derivations page. Previously, the compare/derivations page was
comparing more than the derivations, notably the package metadata. This change
avoids that, and also reduces the information overload on the compare page.
Conventionally, you'd process the oldest job in a queue, but at the moment, it
would be more useful to have recent information more promptly, and fill in the
historical gaps later. I'm not sure this'll always be the case, but for now,
flip the order in which jobs are processed.
So that they can also be used for the /branch/foo/latest-processed-revision
pages. The content is the same, but the title, link, and some of the links on
the page are different.
This makes is easier to get the latest data for a branch in a single request,
rather than making one request to find the latest revision, then another to
get the data.
And use it for the hosting the inferiors, rather than computing the guix
package at runtime. This simplifies the behaviour when the Guix Data Service
is deployed as a Guix package.
I'm not sure quite how to treat these yet, but for now, just stick with the
previous behaviour of showing revisions which haven't been processed yet,
along with the ones that have been successfully processed.
This'll help the a service manager (like the shepherd) know when the service
is ready, which at the moment, means the database migrations have happened.
This runs Sqitch on startup, which should make managing the database easier,
as you just have to restart the service with this option, and the database
should be updated if necessary.
This indicates currently if the database is accessible and a simple query can
be performed. I'm mostly looking at using this when writing a system test for
this service.
Previously, one of the first things that happened when responding to a request
was a database connection was made, even when serving the CSS. This is
unnecessary, so move the database connection handling in to the controller.
Also, to allow for separating it out from the assets, separate the assets out
from the parts of the controller that require a database connection.
Create a new events table for the new guix revision jobs, and update this when
processing a job starts, as well as finished with success or failure.
Additionally, remove the dependnency on open-inferior/container, as this
functionality isn't merged in to Guix master yet.
Previously, the records for jobs would be deleted. It's useful to know when
jobs were inserted in to the database, as well as when they succeeded (if they
have). This change also makes it possible to keep track of jobs that have
failed, as they won't be deleted.
Given that the headers may be the same, regardless whether it's HTML or JSON
being sent in the body of the response, I think it makes more sense to handle
the headers in the controller.
