On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:43 PM, 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?
>

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.

>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
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