[Zope-dev] buildbot news: sending notifications and current broken builds

[Christophe Combelles]

Christian Theune a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I've watched my buildbot send out notifications for a while and pondered how
> to make them available to more people. I decided to send them to this list on
> a 'problem' level.
> 
> The 'problem' level sends a message when a builder changes from a good state
> to a bad state but doesn't send a new message on subsequent failing builds.
> 
> For me this has been reasonably quiet over the last two weeks although about
> 60 builders are broken.
> 
> The risk of sending mail here is that a massive build failure can cause about
> 200 messages being send at once. If anybody knows a better approach with
> buildbot, please let me know, I'd be happy to implement it.

A way to avoid sending 200 failure messages at once would be to put failures in 
a queue and send a unique mail containing all failures, when:
- the last failure in the queue was more than X minutes ago
or
- the first failure in the queue was at least Y hours ago

Christophe

> 
> For everyone else: please have a look at the list of broken builds:
> http://zopebuildbot.whq.gocept.com/cruise
> 
> If a project that you feel responsible for is broken, please check out whats
> wrong and maybe fix it. If the build environment isn't suitable, I'll be happy
> to help. This page should show a green bar!
> 
> Christian
> 
>