Jenkins alerts on infra list

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Burns" <mburns at redhat.com>
> To: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:48:26 PM
> Subject: Jenkins alerts on infra list
> 
> I've noticed that the infra list has been somewhat inundated with
> Jenkins build failure notices recently.  I wanted to ask whether
> infra
> is really the right place to get these notifications.
> 
> In some cases, I think that it is the right place, but in most, I
> think
> it's not.
> 
> Things like:
> 
> check_disk_space_on_jenkins_slaves
> check_gerrit_ovirt_org
> 
> and other jobs that are purely monitoring or slave maintenance jobs
> should report to infra.
> 
> Other jobs that are sub-project oriented, I think, should alert a
> sub-project specific mailing list:
> 
> ovirt-engine_create_rpms_fedora
> ovirt-engine_dao_unit_tests
> ovirt-engine-update_db_multiple_os
> etc...
> 
> While I think infra should know when there are service problems (like
> a
> machine's disk is full, or a service is down), I don't think it's
> worthwhile for infra to be alerted for *every* failure of a job in
> jenkins.  It's not the job of infra to make other sub-projects fix
> their
> builds, just to provide the jenkins service.
> 
> I propose that all sub-project builds that send email to infra be
> diverted to the <sub-project>-patches mailing list.
> 
> Thoughts?

Basically i'm OK with that, it's just past experience showed that if some test is failing and missed by
the relevant group (engine-patches gets way too many emails a day), then in the end this error will keep failing.

maybe we can add emails to project maintainers as well for failing jobs, so they can nag the relevant committer who
broke the build. 

> 
> Mike
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