On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Michael Blumenkrantz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:43:41 +0000
> Daniel Willmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> 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.

I am also going to cast as many votes as it is possible to fill. Would
a letter from my psychiatrist counting the number of individual in my
head help ?
--
Cedric BAIL

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