[Nut-upsdev] Build failure emails from Buildbot?

[Charles Lepple]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org> wrote:
> Citeren Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
>> We could have it just email the person who committed the change(s)
>> that broke the build, and/or we could email nut-commits.
>
> I'd say, both.

OK, we'll give that a try.

>> For the first option, it would go to your alioth.debian.org alias for
>> simplicity. Not sure if the second option makes as much sense for NUT
>> because of the granularity of the timers that trigger builds. By the
>> time that someone else notices the broken build, the original
>> developer would have most likely fixed things.
>
> That might be the case, but would require that the messages to the
> alioth.debian.org alias are forwarded to an e-mail address that is read
> often enough to be useful. I'm not sure this is always the case, so to be on
> the safe side, it would be good to also include nut-commits here.

OK.

As a side note, does it make sense to keep the nut-commit list
archived? After all, it is just a summary of the information you would
get from 'svn log'.

>> The master server is running an older version of Buildbot, but we
>> might be able to limit the emails to just be "edge-triggered" - i.e.,
>> only send an email on the first failure until the build has been
>> fixed.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Please do.

I'm going to fire off one build with mode='all', just to test, then I
will switch it to mode='problem' as described above.

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- Charles Lepple