[gentoo-dev] CI and be CC'ed in a bug report

[gentoo-dev] CI and be CC'ed in a bug report

[Agostino Sarubbo]

Hello,

I've noticed that it's been in vogue lately say "as you were asked many times" 
when there is something to say.

Well, this often (always?) happens without a reference but I don't care.


As asked by sam, CI should CC people that are breaking stuff with their 
commits, see:
https://cutt.ly/Wbx08SQ

However since there are message like this: https://cutt.ly/vbx2qv2 I'm giving 
a public explanation about what is happening:

1) Compilation of package 'A' works as expected
2) A new major change is introduced (gcc/glibc/binutils)
3) The CI system always runs an updated system, then it uses latest ~arch 
versions
4) Someone touches the package by introducing a simple comment in the ebuild
5) Since the ebuild was touched, the CI tries to compile it
6) Package 'A' fails to compile because of GCC-11 and not because of the 
comment added into the ebuild.

This happens mostly when the entire tree has not been 'tinderboxed' with the 
new major change.

So Mikle, I have nothing to fix.


For the record, if you want to request a change, you should send at least an 
email or open a ticket.

Send a message somewhere (mostly IRC) and say "as you were asked many times" 
just seems to be unproductive (or unprofessional, it depends on the point of 
view)

As a side note, as written before and reminder:
who does not want to receive email/reports from tinderbox and ci may request 
to be in the exclusion list.


Agostino