Exposing build information in a more intuitive and useful way

[aidanheerdegen]

There is a build DB that tracks all deployed builds

https://dev.access-hive.org.au/release-provenance

but it would also be useful, and relatively straightforward, to provide an informative web-page for a deployment that has click-able links to all the relevant spack packages, and the specific versions of the code referenced.

Links to builtin spack packages should link to the relevant entry in packages.spack.io, e.g.

https://packages.spack.io/package.html?name=netcdf-c

and access-nri packages should either resolve to the package file in the access-nri/spack-packages repo, or to an access-nri equivalent of packages.spack.io

The web page could be rendered by an actions workflow to a github.io page, and even PRs could see an updated preview using an action like deploy-pr-preview.

This could address some of the problems people have understanding what the various parts of the spack.yaml refer to, and help with making it clear what versions of code are referred to, see ACCESS-NRI/ACCESS-OM3#5 (comment)

The layout of the page is could be something that looks a bit like packages.spack.io, or it could be the spack.yaml but with the various parts clickable through to the relevant code etc, maybe tooltip highlights to explain what each part does? The latter would be a lot more complex, and likely not something worth implementing immediately.