Hi Dan,

I follow the RSS feed on Feedly and for some time now it has shown two updates every day: "NotNeeded in Release" and "NotNeeded in Devel". Up to approximately 2 months ago I only saw updates when the status changed, but since then there have been these two daily non-updates which add a lot of noise.

It seems that the whole NotNeeded thing was introduced in RSS reports sometime last autumn and as far as I can tell it has generated a lot of noise e.g. when the build machine names changes etc. but no useful information.

As the NotNeeded state does not seem something a package maintainer needs to care about, perhaps you could ignore it when generating the RSS and revert to the "No build problems for X" report?


Thanks!

Antti


On 28 Jun 2016, at 22:16, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:

Hi Antti,

I'm not sure I follow. NotNeeded is a status seen in the INSTALL phase of the build, and it means your package did not need to be installed because no other package built by the build system depends on it.

This status should not change from one day to the next. (It would change if someone were to depend on your package.)

But the basic behavior of the RSS feeds is supposed to be to only notify you when there is a change in build status. So you should not get new feeds when the build status stays the same.

Dan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Antti Honkela" <antti.honk...@hiit.fi>
To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 4:45:12 AM
Subject: [Bioc-devel] NotNeeded in build report RSS feeds

Would it be possible to change the build report RSS feed generation to
treat "NotNeeded" similarly as "OK"?

This would make the feed more useful for spotting real problems.


Thanks!

Antti

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