oVirt Jenkins - setting verified flag / messaging

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/08/2013 09:55 PM, Eyal Edri wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
>> To: dougsland at redhat.com
>> Cc: infra at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 9:43:30 PM
>> Subject: Re: oVirt Jenkins - setting verified flag / messaging
>>
>> On 03/07/2013 08:50 PM, Douglas Landgraf wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When we send a patch to gerrit.ovirt.org for VDSM project, jenkins
>>> start
>>> the building job and if everything is nice it set the flag
>>> 'verified'.
>>> Is it possible to jenkins not set the flag verified?
>>> It's looks like more building validation then a real test.
>>
>> possible.
>
> already done afaik (changed 1 to 0 on gerrit trigger side)
>
>>
>>>
>>> Also, is it possible to Jenkins stop saying that it starts a test
>>> and
>>> just tell us when something is broken?
>
> not possible via current plugin.
> i know someone from the rhevm team is looking into sending a patch
> to the gerrit trigger jenkins plugin [1] to stop these alerts. (or at least make them configurable)
>
> meanwhile, the only solution i can think of is changing ability of the jenkins user
> to email reviewers, which i think is only supported from gerrit 2.5.2: (we're using 2.4.2)
>
> from the plugin doc [2]:
>
> "Reduce number of notification emails
>
> Since the trigger adds a comment in Gerrit for each build start and end, usually all the reviewers get a notification email. This can get quite annoying. However, it's possible to configure Gerrit so that only the change owner and people who starred the change get a notification email. To do this DENY the 'Email Reviewers' capability for the Gerrit user that is used by Jenkins. See https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/access-control.html#capability_emailReviewers."
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> [1] https://github.com/jenkinsci/gerrit-trigger-plugin
> [2] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Gerrit+Trigger
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>
>>
>> main problem is then we don't know when it stopped working
>> altogether...
>> but doing a single comment for all starting jobs would reduce amount
>> of
>> noise dramatically
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
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I've been avoiding upgrading gerrit as it relatively stable now, but if 
there are relevant features, can revisit.
(the copying of flags on rebases without any change is a nice one)