[Imstk-developers] Dashboard final touches

[Alexis Girault]

As you saw, we had the dashboard properly updated last week by switching to
open.cdash.org. That transition allowed to get the latest updates of CDash,
namely commit number on the left column, correct categorization of
merge-requests and master builds, and more importantly filtering by build
name, allowing us to quickly visualize the builds that matter from a
merge-request. This instance of CDash will have a better support in the
future that the former my.cdash.org.

The link to the dashboard has been updated on the website (thank you
Dzenan).

Today we should be transitioning to another instance of buildbot, public,
and also better maintained that the current one. This update will be able
to tackle two issues:
- fix the current window builds errors for merge-requests and master on the
dashboard: the issue is due to some external data file path exceeding the
maximum path length limitation of 260, and the update will allow us to
customize the build directory names to a shorter name which will shorten
that path enough.
- Disable continuous building of a merge-request after updates: to start
the builds for the dashboard, we will have to comment `Do: test` instead of
`@buildbot test`, and do it each time we want builds to occur, which will
save us some computing time. We will also be able to use `Do: merge` to
merge the branch.

I will keep you informed of the advancements during the day.

Alexis Girault
R&D Engineer in Medical Computing
Kitware, Inc.

http://www.kitware.com
(919) 969-6990 x325
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