Re: Build failed in Jenkins: gnustep #67

[Niels Grewe]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 09:14:31AM -0400, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Niels,
> 
> The fact that we have had 30+ successful builds without any issues seems to
> indicate a good track record with respect to Jenkins and the ci effort.
> Honestly I am not going to put the messages on their own list because that 
> list
> will become a black hole and will be all too easy for people to ignore.  The
> dev list is relatively low traffic and a little noise every once in a wild
> shouldn't present an issue.
> 
> Given people's reluctance to accept Jenkins emailing the dev list I'm forced 
> to
> question why some people are even contributing to this project.  If you don't
> want to hear about build or test failures then I don't know what you're doing
> here.

Sorry Greg, 

I think you got me all wrong. I‘m very much in favour of CI, and I
absolutely want to hear about build and test failures. What I don‘t want
is to hear about failures of the CI tool or to receive emails that are
send in response to a commit I did but require me to wade through dozens
of lines of build output in order to figure out whether I actually broke
something or if it‘s a pre-existing issue. But then again this sounds
more harsh than intended, so please take it the wrong way: I‘m merely
worried that an initial sub-par experience with Jenkins might adversely
affect people‘s opinions against an otherwise great way to ensure code
quality.

Cheers,

Niels