[Rock-dev] Help needed: improve jenkins error reporting

[Sylvain Joyeux]

90% of the "build" errors we see these days are due to:
  - connection problems with pointclouds.org
  - connection problems with gitorious.org
  - errors in autoproj (the last two days were a problem related to
    patching in autobuild)

and in no case due to "actual" build problems (i.e. somebody breaking a 
package).

The issue I personally see is that people disregard these mails because 
of the high noise-to-signal ratio.

Would someone step up to implement a solution to this ? Ideally, but not 
necessarily, integrated with jenkins.

Ideas:
  * send errors that are not specific to a package build to an
    "administrator email" for only a few selected people. This includes
    update errors.
  * send errors specific to a package build or install stages to
    rock-dev *and* to the email listed in manifest.xml.

The separation between the two cases could be done through an exit 
status returned by autoproj (i.e. make autoproj return a different error 
in both cases). autoproj could then generate a error_notifications.txt 
file of the form
<package_name> <responsible_emails>

That file can then be parsed to notify the relevant persons.

Thoughts ?
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Sylvain Joyeux (Dr.Ing.)
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