[bug-inetutils] Re: Continuous builds on Hydra

[Ludovic Courtès]

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.

> 2) delay sending e-mail a few hours to see if the problem persists.
> Sometimes you check in something that is clearly broken and you fix it
> minutes later yourself, and getting a notification for that seems
> useless.

I don’t develop Hydra myself, but I could discuss such changes with
those involved.

> Do you have a pointer to how these e-mails looks like?

It looks like this:

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Hi,

This is to let you know that Hydra build 182029 of job nixpkgs:stdenv:gcj has 
FAILED.

Complete build information can be found on this page: 
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/182029

A summary of the build information follows:


Build ID:              | 182029                                                 
          
Nix name:              | gcj-wrapper-4.4.2                                      
          
Short description:     | GNU Compiler Collection, version 4.4.2 (wrapper 
script)          
Maintainer(s):         | Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>                       
           
System:                | x86_64-linux                                           
          
Derivation store path: | 
/nix/store/ha7aski4k7k0fn3ikpq0fpqgildqvisb-gcj-wrapper-4.4.2.drv
Output store path:     | 
/nix/store/2p54n3im7yv1bl8gn3k79qbk1rp73cg9-gcj-wrapper-4.4.2    
Time added:            | 2009-12-10 15:59:50                                    
          
Build started:         | 2009-12-10 15:58:50                                    
          
Build finished:        | 2009-12-10 15:59:50                                    
          
Duration:              | 60s                                                    
          


The build inputs were:

Name    | Type   | Value                                                        
        
--------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------
nixpkgs | svn    | 
https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates:18879
system  | string | x86_64-linux                                                 
        


Regards,

The Hydra build daemon.
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Thanks,
Ludo’.