Re: [E-devel] Jenkins IRC notifications - how much is too much?

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:58:32 -0300 Iván Briano <sac...@gm...>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Daniel Willmann
> <d.w...@sa...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > as you know we have had Jenkins running and reporting build issues
> > for almost two weeks now. After initial hiccups I think it has
> > performed quite well so far. I know of only one occasion where
> > Jenkins blamed the wrong commit for failing (and that was only
> > because the segfault didn't happen every time the tests ran) and I
> > think it is worth having the Jenkins bot report failed and fixed
> > builds.
> >
> > All was fine until earlier today when the Jenkins bot got kicked
> > from #edevelop for use of colors and excessive messaging. I
> > disabled colors and reduced the message to only report success of
> > failure in order to have the bot in the channel again.
> >
> > I do think, however, that the earlier options were useful and we
> > should re-enable them - thus this mail.
> >
> > What the bot actually printed was this:
> >
> > <efl-jenkins> Yippie, build fixed!
> > <efl-jenkins> Project efl build #116:FIXED in 14 min:
> > http://jenkins.enlightenment.org/job/efl/116/
> > <efl-jenkins> * tom: Disable cow magic in dev profile, instead of a
> > hack in the source.
> > <efl-jenkins> * tom: Eina cow: Don't tests things that depend on
> > magic when it's off.
> >
> > When enabling colors the bot writes the status SUCCESS/FAILURE in
> > green/red. This allows me to quickly look for the latest status in
> > the backlog which I find quite useful. It will also highlight commit
> > messages containing the word "test" in magenta.
> >
> > The other option I disabled was to also include the changes that
> > contributed towards this status change (the last two messages).
> > This has the advantage of highlighting whoever broke the build (or
> > fixed it) and gives you a rough idea what could have broken it.
> >
> > So what do you think? Is this too much, does it bother you? Should
> > we re-enable the these features?
> >
> 
> For all I care, the bot could use one of the old mIRC scripts and
> have a bunch of colors and random crap surrounding the messages.
> 
> PS: CCing onefang because discomfitor told me to.

Awww, he must miss me.

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