[Vm-dev] Notifications about successful builds

[Fabio Niephaus]

Hi Eliot,


On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 12:05 AM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Fabio,
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> > On Dec 28, 2018, at 7:02 AM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > We all break things every now and then, and then I think it's
> > important to get notified.
> > Development on the vm has gained a fair amount of momentum which is
> > fantastic. However, working with feature branches and PRs has also led
> > to a substantial amount of "build completed" emails from Travis and
> > AppVeyor.
> >
> > I'm suggesting to turn off "build completed" notifications to decrease
> > the number of automated emails from CI. Any objections?
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> Not do much an objection as a desire for one  "build completed" message reporting a successful build after any failing build.  I’m not interested in repeated success reports but I would like to know that the build has been repaired.
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> Knowing the build is broken is important enough to receive a message in my in box.  But then what do I do?  Do I visit the site every hour to check?  That’s not satisfactory.
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> Now, given it’s not too hard to search and delete, I would lean more towards reporting successful builds in email than towards not getting any success notifications at all.

Makes sense. "build completed" email are already only being sent if
the previous build failed or does not exist (in case of new branches,
PRs, etc). Unfortunately, we can't disable notifications for the
latter, so it's probably better to leave things as they are at the
moment.

Fabio

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> > Cheers,
> > Fabio