build logs: faster navigation to errors

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RPM build system - upstream for https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

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build logs: faster navigation to errors #2415

Open TomasTomecek opened 2 years ago

TomasTomecek commented 2 years ago

We have recently got an RFE in #packit for RPM builds in Copr. The suggestion was to highlight errors so the user can easily spot what went wrong and correct it. This would greatly improve user experience, especially for folks who don't have a ton of experience with RPM builds.

This could also be a great opportunity to even apply some of the machine learning here (as @xsuchy hinted a few weeks ago).

Originally reported to us by @ssbarnea

ssbarnea commented 2 years ago

IMHO, we should not need to go to machine learning, plain simple highlighting of the error lines would make a huge improvement. This can be achieve with at least one of the next two steps:

ANSI enabled logs. Rendering can even happen using the browser as there are React components that can display ANSI in browser.
Using regexes to highlight the lines with errors, in the end with less than 10 regexes we could probably highlight he important lines from >99% of the logs. I even have a good set of already made ones that we used with tripleo openstack.

PS. Try to not over-engineer the coloring, find the easiest way to enable it.

praiskup commented 2 years ago

Using regexes to highlight the lines with errors, in the end with less than 10 regexes we could probably highlight he important lines from >99% of the logs.

This is an interesting idea. There's a similar Mock approach https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/issues/279

If we tweaked the tool so it was able to extract the "likely" build failure reason, we could even present it in the web UI.

praiskup commented 1 year ago