Re: [Tails-dev] Automated builds specification

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Author: bertagaz
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Automated builds specification
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:30:28AM +0200, anonym wrote:
> On 06/16/2015 02:41 PM, bertagaz wrote:
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 01:59:06PM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> >> anonym wrote (30 Mar 2015 07:48:28 GMT) :
> >>> On 29/03/15 15:04, bertagaz wrote:
>
> >>> Wild (possibly unrelated) idea: instead of only notifying the author of
> >>> the last commit of a topic branch, what about notifying all authors of
> >>> the topic branch since it deviated from the base branch?
> [...]
> >>> Also, I guess we need to filter out authors that are not Tails "core"
> >>> developers, so they do not get build failure notifications. This applies
> >>> to both packages uploaded (when we upload a package built by a 3rd
> >>> party), and Git (patches). Hmm.
> >>sure.
> >> Why?
> >
> > I think on the contrary it might be useful for people that are not core
> > devs to get notifications on build failure.
>
> I'm not sure that contributors will appreciate these notifications.
>
> Any way, at least some "core" member *must* be notified too since they
> have the power to actually fix it so...
>
> >>> This makes me think that we should perhaps look at Git committer
> >>> name/email in Git instead of the author.
> >>
> >> Indeed, Git has separate committer and author "metadata fields" for
> >> each commit. But I don't understand what exactly you're suggesting we
> >> use them for -- may you please elaborate on this idea?
> >
> > I don't think it's that important. The only use case I see where it would
> > change who gets the notification would be when one of us import a patch
> > we received. Then, it is interesting still to use the author field, as it
> > means that the notification would be sent to the one who actually wrote
> > the patch, and not just to the one who merged it. Or maybe we want both of
> > them to be notified?
>
> ... notifying both author and committer seems like a very nice idea.


Ok, as it's quite a change to our current specifications, and is a longer
discussion that might need to see live action going on to decide
something, I've tracked this discussion in a separate ticket:
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9615

Thanks!

bert.