You could check out the email-ext plugin. I has a lot of configurability. On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 12:24 PM Christian Flamm < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/83fd1216-241b-4c95-ac14-c1c1c4d50561%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/83fd1216-241b-4c95-ac14-c1c1c4d50561%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVfwnfMkheqHURicb73eFuffvf7EsgO-r8NzFwPJvkigFw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
