Re: Announcement/RFC: jhbuild continuous integration testing

[Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra gnome org>]

This is really awesome stuff!

On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 07:43 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> To make this really useful, we can't rely on developers checking this
> every hour or every day, of course; instead we need push notifications
> as soon as a module starts failing. That's the bit which needs broader
> discussion and consent.
> 
> I see some obvious options here what to do when the status of a module
> (OK/fails tests/fails build) changes:
> 
>  (1) mail the individual maintainers, as in the DOAP files
>    (1a) do it for everyone, and let people who don't want this filter
>    them out on a particular mail header (like "X-GNOME-QA:")
>    (1b) do this as opt-in
> 
>    This most often reaches the people who can do something about the
>    failure. Of course there are cases where it's not the module's fault, but a
>    dependency changed/got broken. There is no way we can automatically
>    determine whether it was e. g. a deliberate API break which modules
>    need to adjust to, or indeed a bug in the depending library, so we
>    might actually need to mail both the maintainers of the module that
>    triggered the rebuild, and the maintainers of the module which now
>    broke.
> 
>  (2) one big mailing list with all failures, and machine parseable
>      headers for module/test

(3) Automatically filing a bug in the broken module with the details of
the breakage and additionally CC: whoever might be interested in keeping
an eye on the continuous integration?

Claudio