[Opendnssec-develop] RE: Jenkins email notifications

[Sara Dickinson]

Hi All, 

I've been meaning to ask for a while how useful people are finding the email notifications from jenkins. It is currently set up to send emails on a job/platform basis which can result in ~15 emails when one job fails everywhere, and then another 15 when it is fixed. The emails do contain a lot of useful information but personally I find the quantity a bit much (they don't thread with the current subject settings). 

I would like to try out switching the setup to send a single email per job which will contain information about which platform(s) failed but not the details of what failed (see below for an example). Since we have the groovy junit test results page set up in jenkins now I don't think this is much of a problem as it is easy to see the details via the web page. I would like to make the change tomorrow and see how it works out unless anyone thinks this is a bad idea. 

I've also changed the subject format slightly so the build status is the first item in the subject line so it is easier to see at a glance if the mail is for fixed or failed. If anyone has any other suggestions please let me know!

Thanks

Sara. 

> From: jenkins at opendnssec.org
> Date: 4 April 2013 14:25:46 GMT+01:00
> To: sara at sinodun.com
> Subject: Successful: email-test - Build # 2
> 
> email-test - Build # 2 - Successful:
> 
> Check console output at https://jenkins.opendnssec.org/job/email-test/2/ to view the results.
> 
> FAILED UNIT TESTS:
> No tests ran.
> 
> BUILD LOG:
> Started by user Sara Dickinson
> Building on master in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/email-test/workspace
> No emails were triggered.
> Triggering debian64-ods01
> Triggering openbsd64-ods10
> Triggering solaris-ods07
> Triggering centos32-ods13
> Triggering suse64-ods11
> Triggering redhat64-ods08
> Triggering netbsd64-ods09
> Triggering sl64-ods04
> Triggering freebsd64-ods06
> Triggering ubuntu32-ods12
> Triggering freebsd32-ods15
> Triggering opensuse32-ods14
> Triggering ubuntu12-amd64-ods03
> Triggering opensuse64-ods05
> Triggering ubuntu64-ods02
> debian64-ods01 completed with result SUCCESS
> openbsd64-ods10 completed with result SUCCESS
> solaris-ods07 completed with result SUCCESS
> centos32-ods13 completed with result SUCCESS
> suse64-ods11 completed with result SUCCESS
> redhat64-ods08 completed with result SUCCESS
> netbsd64-ods09 completed with result SUCCESS
> sl64-ods04 completed with result SUCCESS
> freebsd64-ods06 completed with result SUCCESS
> ubuntu32-ods12 completed with result SUCCESS
> freebsd32-ods15 completed with result SUCCESS
> opensuse32-ods14 completed with result SUCCESS
> ubuntu12-amd64-ods03 completed with result SUCCESS
> opensuse64-ods05 completed with result SUCCESS
> ubuntu64-ods02 completed with result SUCCESS
> Email was triggered for: Success
> Sending email for trigger: Success