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

[Alexander Duda]

On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 15:21 +0100, Janosch Machowinski wrote:
> Might it perhaps allready help to given an
> retry option to autoproj. What I mean is
> in case of an checkout error try to check out
> multiple times...
> Greetings
>      Janosch
> 
> P.S.: Yes I know, this is bad behavior as it generates even more load on the
> server etc.

We could also use a proxy server which might be easier to set up than
modifying autoproj.

Alex


> 
> On 12.01.2012 15:07, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> > 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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