http://jira.public.thoughtworks.org/browse/CCNET-1360

Done!

Hi Tim,

That sounds like a good solution as a compromise, but personally, as
Ruben is already fully aware of. I have issues with being forced to
create multiple projects.

If like us, you have many products. Turns the dash a right old mess!

anyway, that's another thread!

cheers,
shaun

On 5 Feb, 14:16, "Tim Rayment" <[email protected]> wrote:
> What about splitting your build into several stages (a build pipeline) where
> you have several CruiseControl projects chained together, with each project
> doing a specific task.  For example Compile, Unit Test, Static Analysis etc.
>
> You can then tailor the email publisher for each project to target the
> appropriate group of developers/testers.
>
> Here's a link to an 
> articlehttp://studios.thoughtworks.com/assets/2007/5/11/The-Deployment-Pipel...
> Dave-Farley-2007.pdf
>
> The other benefit you get is that the feedback time is reduced and it's
> easier to identify which stage of the build is failing.
>
> Where I work we have the following pipeline:
> 1. Build, unit test and static analysis
> 2. Component test
> 3. Build installer
> 4. Test installer
> 5. Integration test
> 6. Performance test
>
> The further you progress down the pipeline, the longer tasks tend to take,
> but the greater your confidence that it works as it should.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>
> Behalf Of CinnamonDonkey
> Sent: 05 February 2009 14:05
> To: ccnet-user
> Subject: [ccnet-user] Re: Email Publisher: Custome Notification Types
>
> We feel the need to distinguish between code that compiles
> successfully and code that compiles but could have potential flaws.
>
> Our analysis picks up issues like; potential security exploits,
> unreachable code, return values not being checked. These problems do
> not justify a build being flagged as failed, it is most likely a
> stable and valid version. But the defects need attention to see if
> they are genuine issues.
>
> Surely providing your end-users with the flexibility to adapt the
> systems functionality to their own needs is a good thing.
>
> By providing user defined notification types the end-user can have
> finer detail into what actually went wrong with the build. There
> company structure may be that they want to report different
> notification types to different teams or specific employees.
>
> We currently have a couple of guys who do all the unit tests... if a
> build fails on a unit test we want them to be notified but if the code
> fails compilation we want the codes author to be notified. If the code
> fails static analysis, we and both the codes author and they're
> supervisor to be notified.
>
> Your product should not be dictating company structure and work flow,
> but be flexible to fit into they're requirements.
>
> I hope this makes sense and does not sound like a complaint or a
> digg... it is not. I think you guys are doing a great job!!!
>
> I'll make a change request up ;-).
>
> Regards,
> Shaun
>
> On 5 Feb, 12:31, Ruben Willems <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi
>
> > you surely can add it to the change request pool (JIRA)
> > but why another notification type?
>
> > if it needs fixing : break the build
> > if it does not need fixing : do not bother the programmer
>
> > Am I missing something?
>
> > In my setup, I have something similar,
> > during the CI integration, some warnings may be ok.
>
> > But when the button is pressed: 'ProjectXToQA', there may be NO warnings
>
> > with kind regards
> > Ruben Willems
>
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:25 PM, CinnamonDonkey <
>
> > [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi All (Read as DevTeam ;),
>
> > > I have now set-up our incremental build process. The main purpose of
> > > which is to run static code analysis on every change list submitted.
> > > This analysis generates a build report which lists any code defects
> > > detected and notifies the  change list owner so that they can fix
> > > their defects.
>
> > > The problem I have thougth is a build with defects is NOT a failed
> > > build. The build is most likely successful. This means that currently
> > > we must spam the user with emails for every build with and without
> > > defects.
>
> > > Off course this means that sooner or later the end-users will start to
> > > ignore their emails and will miss defects that need fixing.
>
> > > What would be handy is if we could define our own notification types.
> > > This way I could create a notification type called "DEFECTS" and setup
> > > the users to be emailed in the event of defects being detected in
> > > their code.
>
> > > Is there currently a way of doing this? Is this something that could
> > > be added to the change requests for post 1.4.3?
>
> > > Regards,
> > > Shaun

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