Implement UI elements: build's progress bar & build time charts

[toinbis]

Couple of UI elements could be implemented in order to make buildbot's webstatus pages be more intuitively-informative:

a) build's progress bar. A graphical representation for the build's ETA time.

b) build's timing chart, probably with distinct type(colour) of lines representing each step.

jQuery(UI) + Plot( http://code.google.com/p/flot/) are the tools to be used initially, whilst having eyes wide open for the more appropriate ones (more possible options are described here:  http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/02/6-jquery-chart-plugins-reviewed/).

These improvements shouldn't affect the way JS-less browsers renders web status pages.

External loading of JS libraries and/or caching should be considered to reduce an extra load of buildmaster. But that's already the scope of another ticket.

[marcusl]

Do you plan to view a history of build-times? That'd be interesting to see.

Actually, a generic system graphing the history of various benchmark values (time, commits, #lines changes, failures, or build-specific output such as # of tests/fails, code-coverage, etc) would be _really_ cool. ;)

[dustin]

toinbis: any progress here?

[dustin]

I think toinbis has disappeared..

[dustin]

This would be a cool addition to the JS UI, but probably not for a long time..