21.05 Retrospective

I found it difficult to get started because of my lack of experience with Hydra.

Specifically:

(from ZERO Hydra Failures 21.05 · Issue #122042 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub):

How to help (textual)

The “textual” was confusing, as I wasn’t sure if it meant that there was going to be a video as well.

Select an evaluation of the trunk jobset

I didn’t know which evaluation I should choose. Should I always choose the last?

Find a failed job

Should I click on “Still failing jobs”? Or “Evaluation errors”? (In retrospect, it is obvious now, but it wasn’t 100% back then)

you can use the filter field to scope packages to your platform

It took me a while to figure out that there is no drop-down menu, and that I have to filter with a text field. How to do this was not obvious to me though.


The true thing though is that I was quite busy, and could have figured these things out on my own (or asked). That’s why I didn’t bring them up during ZHF. But I thought it might be useful feedback nevertheless.

Thanks for all the great job you’ve done so far streamlining and clarifying the process!

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