[Toaster] Review of "all machines" page

[Michael Wood]

Progress update michaelw/all-machines

On 02/02/15 10:28, Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> Thanks, Michael.
>
> A couple of comments in line, plus a couple of new things I've been able
> to look at thanks to your fixes:
>
> * the add layer notifications need to match the ones in all other pages.
> Currently they say:
>
> "You have added 2 layers: meta-handheld and its dependencies
> meta-initramfs. Go to project configuration"
>
> We should show the project name instead of the 'go to project
> configuration' link, and the name of the layer added should be a link to
> the layer details page. You can see how the notifications should look like
> by adding a layer from the layer details page using the latest poky/master
> branch
>
> This is the commit that applied the changes
>
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=088c19d6442653c6b
> 39003057512d75b6c9508b7
Fixed: a27a66d875c909114ce52875c52f703ddbbe71c5
> * The 2-stage select machine process is not in place either. When I click
> the 'select machine' button, I am brought to the project page, the machine
> is changed, but I get no notification that the change has been made.
>
This is something that needs implementation in the project page if it 
isn't already, I will come back to this for the layerdetails page too.

>
> On 30/01/2015 19:49, "Michael Wood" <michael.g.wood at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Current work in progress available for testing at poky-contrib
>> michaelw/all-machines
>>
>> (If there's no in-line comment it's an item that's still TODO).
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>>
>>> * The "Show rows" menu doesn't seem to be working properly. When you
>>> load
>>> the page, the table always shows 10 rows, independently of the value
>>> selected in the "show rows" menu
>> Fixed
> Yes: it now shows 10 when you load the page, and there are 10 machines
> listed per page. But the last selected value doesn't seem to be stored in
> the cookie. If I select, for example, 50 rows, then visit a couple of
> other pages, then I go back to the all machines page, the value is set
> back to 10.

Fixed: 34124b4223b4bda0b238db35161a2e6ba20436f0
>>> * The machine file information is not coming in
>> Unfortunately we have no information available on the machine file that
>> I can find to display
> We would need to check how the layer index gathers this information, and
> do the same if we can. This sounds like a nice to have, and it might be,
> but it is actually a 'very nice' to have. Basically, it is useful to be
> able to quickly get to the source files if you need to understand what
> they are doing. Can I ask you to have a chat with Paul to see how we can
> provide this?

Fixed: I talked to Paul, it does look like we can re-construct the link 
to the conf file, I didn't realise it but this is what the layer index 
does too and I've added it in
63ceb98ac1b6bc63560665582543394eeff05c2b from some random testing this 
does seem to work.