Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: automatically mailing people on pkgcheck problems with their packages

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 12/06/2015 11:00 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>>
>>> Of course. Add the commit author, too: I want to know if I break someone
>>> else's package.
>>
>> So far, can't do that since we don't know which commit exactly broke. I
>> don't want to do any heuristics that could blame the wrong person.
>>
>
> Is the testing performed per-push rather than per-commit? Either way, I
> would like to get a notification that something broke, even if it wasn't
> my commit at fault. Just change the word "blame" to "alert" so no one
> feels slandered.
>

++

This isn't about shaming people.  It is about alerting that the tree
is broken.  I think we can agree that when packages don't build it is
a problem, and it won't fix itself.

How many commits typically go by in-between checks?  Would it be
practical to just alert any commit author in that time range?  Sure,
it would generate a bit of spam, but:

1.  Better to get problems fixed sooner than later.
2.  The overall improved attention to QA will hopefully reduce the
error rate and thus make the number of emails regulate themselves.

One of the first steps towards reducing errors is to increase their visibility.

-- 
Rich