Martin Wille <mw8329@yahoo.com.au> writes:
Hartmut Kaiser wrote:
What about generating an email to the maintainers of the corresponding library, which makes sure they will know about a failed test ... :-)
I often had failures due to problems with my local setup. Emails about failed tests should not be sent without being checked by a human before. (Which main- tainer would want to be notified about my disk-full errors?)
You ;-) Seriously, I'm sure there's a way to deal with this sort of thing, because the BuildBot is being used successfully by several projects.
I reported some problems several times (sometimes to the list sometimes directly to the maintainer). This didn't always result in the problem being fixed. I'm afraid automatically generated emails would be ignored even more.
The way BuildBot works, it first notifies the perpetrator of the offending checkin. After that, if the problem isn't fixed, it can make more-urgent notifications to a different/wider audience. It can use any number of notification methods including email and IRC. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com