On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:43:41 +0000 Daniel Willmann <[email protected]> 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? > > > Regards, > Daniel > Your reasoning for enabling the currently-disabled features is well-worded and without flaw, and I hardly think seeing an extra line or some colors when Cedric breaks build will ruin anyone's day more than it already has been. I cast two votes for putting it back the way it was. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
