I agree the jenkins emails are spammy (to the point that I honestly
can't follow all of them). +1 to emailing "suspects" as defined by
those that impacted the build in the time it turned green to red.
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:55 AM Udi Meiri <eh...@google.com> wrote:
>
> The email trigger is setup to trigger on the 1st failure (after last green I
> presume), and to send an email to "suspects" of the first failing build
> (authors and build triggerers).
> If a new job's first build is failing it should send an email, but only to
> suspects.
>
> https://github.com/jenkinsci/email-ext-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/emailext/plugins/trigger/FirstFailureTrigger.java
> https://github.com/jenkinsci/email-ext-plugin/blob/9012fcd1b9b2040f2d34c2723198a751eb81cce5/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/emailext/plugins/recipients/FirstFailingBuildSuspectsRecipientProvider.java#L100
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:48 PM Andrew Pilloud <apill...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> There are numerous reports on this list of Jenkins emails being spammy on
>> new jobs. The list of emails generated on the first run is everyone who has
>> ever had a commit merged to Beam. I don't suppose that would be a problem if
>> this doesn't get turned on until at least one run has passed on each job.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:44 PM Udi Meiri <eh...@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/6635 is an attempt to notify commit
>>> authors if their commit is suspected to have broken post-commit test.
>>>
>>> I'd would like to get some feedback about this feature.
>>> Is it accurate?
>>> Is it spammy?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
