Do you want to render ANSI in Zuul console?

Sean Mooney smooney at redhat.com
Thu Aug 27 16:24:58 UTC 2020


On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 08:37 -0700, Clark Boylan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, at 1:11 AM, Sorin Sbarnea wrote:
> > At this moment Zuul web interfaces displays output of commands as raw, 
> > so any ANSI terminal output will display ugly artifacts.
> > 
> > I tried enabling ANSI about half a year ago but even after providing 
> > two different implementations, I was not able to popularize it enough.
> > 
> > 
> > As this is a UX related feature, I think would like more appropriate to 
> > ask for feedback from openstack-discuss, likely the biggest consumer of 
> > zuul web interface. 
> > 
> > Please comment/+/- on review below even if you are not a zuul core. At 
> > least it should show if this is a desired feature to have or not:
> 
> Without my Zuul hat on but with my "I debug a lot of openstack jobs" hat I would prefer we remove ansi color controls
> from our log files entirely. They make using grep and other machine processing tools more difficult. I find the
> utility of grep, ^F, elasticsearch, and the log level severity filtering far more useful than scrolling and looking
> for colors that may be arbitrarily applied by the source.
if we can remove them form the logs but use a javascpit lib in the viewer to still highlight thing that might be the
best of both worlds
i do fine the syntax hyilighign nice but we dont need color codes to do that.
> 
> > 
> > https://review.opendev.org/#/c/739444/> > 
> > This review also includes a screenshot that shows how the rendering 
> > looks (an alternative for using the sitepreview)
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Sorin Sbarnea
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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