Hi Jacek,

I absolutely agree with the two points you brought up. Having Jenkins 
notification behavior like this is IMHO a very reasonable standard setting 
for many situations. I just wonder why I can't seem to configure the 
behavior to whatsoever I believe is necessary. I mean.. there are check 
boxes to check/uncheck.. what are they for?

My use case: We have many, many branches and corresponding CI jobs 
(on-push) for each of them. On some of these branches only 1 or 2 people 
work. The main reason I believe it's necessary to implement my desired 
behavior for some branches is: *Jenkins must never spam*!

   1. *Don't spam the right people*: On relatively "unimportant" branches, 
   the person who broke the build first is exactly the right person to notify. 
   Don't tell him over and over again - he knows and he's working on it 
   according to his work priorities. 
   2. *Don't spam the wrong people*: After a branch build breaks the team 
   working on it might integrate the master branch progress (via git merge). 
   All the authors that committed stuff on the master branch are now authors 
   of that branch, too. Don't send them mails, it's not their fault, they 
   don't know, mostly they don't care.
   
After three years of experience with Jenkins using the standard 
notification setting

   1. people often receive redundant notifications which they find 
   unnerving (=spam)
   2. people often receive confusing notifications about branches they 
   don't even know about and about which they don't care (=spam)
   
If I want people to take such notifications seriously I must send as little 
of them as possible. Else people will perceive them as noise. That's the 
last thing I want.

Regards, Christian

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