Plugins contributing to Build Failure Analyser

[Christopher Orr]

Hi there,

Firstly, thanks for the Build Failure Analyser plugin -- I'm sure this 
will be useful for a huge number of Jenkins users.

While I can see that developers can add further Indications to the 
plugin, would it be possible for plugins to contribute Failure Causes 
directly for builds?

For example, I just had to manually create a Failure Cause with a Build 
Log Indication which scans for "^Build timed out.+" -- to detect 
timeouts triggered by the Build Timeout Plugin.

But the timeout plugin *knows* that it's changing the build output, so 
it would be nice if it could also report this information directly to 
the BFA plugin -- without BFA having to scan the logs, and without the 
user having to manually configure a Failure Cause.

Would this be possible?  There are a lot of plugins out there which can 
change the build result, so this would be really cool :)

Thanks,
Chris