[bug-inetutils] Re: Continuous builds on Hydra

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I can think of several things to improve notification quality: 1) make
>> sure that only one e-mail is sent if builds stop working -- only ever
>> send another e-mail if one build has succeeded since the last failure.
>
> Currently, what Hydra does it sends an email each time a build fails;
> and it tries to build each time one of the inputs changed.
>
> So, for instance, if an Inetutils build fails, then Hydra won’t trigger
> a new build until either the Inetutils repo, or the Gnulib repo, or the
> standard Nix build environment change.

And one build per build machine too?  I think this will likely lead to a
large number of e-mails very quickly...  Personally I wouldn't want that
to be posted to this list, it would hide real discussions.  But I'll let
other people here chime in on what to do.

> It looks like this:

Thanks.

/Simon