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On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 17:24 +0100, Sean Mooney wrote:
> 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.
i ment to say i have had some success with https://highlightjs.org/ before for that use case mainly in blogs but
it might be a solution.
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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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