[tei-council] Jenkins errors: who gets notified

[Kevin Hawkins]

Thanks.  Could we add the parsed console link to 
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw20.xml ?  All I was 
going on is the link in the email, which just gives me a list of SF 
revisions.

On 12/5/2011 3:24 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> First of all, there's no need to be paranoid at all; we all break the
> build regularly, and Stormy does it several times a day. :-)
>
> If the change you made was purely textual -- say a fix for a typo in the
> guidelines -- and you validated your file before committing it, then the
> chance that it's your fault are very small. If you've done anything in
> the Specs files, though, it's remarkable how many unforeseen
> consequences there can be, and you should check whether you caused the
> problem. The way to do that is to go to the page for the broken build,
> and then click on Parsed Console Output -- for instance:
>
> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/job/TEIP5/123/parsed_console/>
>
> This will enable you to see the actual error messages relating to the
> broken build (in this case, they're warnings), and you can determine
> whether the issue looks like it might have been caused by your changes.
> If you don't get enough clues there to help you track down the problem,
> just ask on the list.
>
> One of the side-effects of more of us committing changes is that there
> are more changes and more broken builds, but we're all learning all the
> time, and it doesn't usually take long for one of us to figure out what
> the problem might be and suggest a fix.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 11-12-05 10:49 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>> I understand that Jenkins won't know whose error it is, but as far as I
>> can tell, Jenkins emails for failures only those who have committed
>> changes since the last successful build, not everyone who has ever
>> committed a change for which a build was not successful. So I suspected
>> this could be done somehow.
>>
>> It's not so much that it's onerous but that it makes me paranoid. I
>> keep expecting an irritated message from someone telling me that it's my
>> error that caused the problem, not one of the others. I mean, how
>> exactly do you know if it was yours that caused the problem?
>>
>> On 12/5/2011 1:37 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> I don't think there's any way Jenkins can know whose changes caused an
>>> error. The cycle of builds can take a couple of hours, and if three
>>> changes are committed between one build and the next, Jenkins just knows
>>> that one of those commits will have caused the problem; it can't know
>>> which one.
>>>
>>> So if you're concerned that you're getting emails triggered by build
>>> failures for which you're not responsible, then I don't think there's a
>>> way around that. You won't really know whether you were responsible for
>>> the build failure till you take a look at the log.
>>>
>>> Are you finding the volume of emails onerous?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> On 11-12-05 09:55 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to reconfigure Jenkins to only email those users who
>>>> have
>>>> committed new changes since Jenkins last ran rather than since Jenkins
>>>> last ran successfully?
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
>>>
>