[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #956: Send an email notification to the person who forces/rebuilds a build

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#956: Send an email notification to the person who forces/rebuilds a build
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Reporter:  yogawa@…     |       Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  0.8.+
 Version:  0.8.1        |  Resolution:
Keywords:  mail, users  |
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Comment (by dcoshea):

 Replying to [comment:4 jaredgrubb]:
 > Buildbot does this if you have the MailNotifier send to "interested
 users".. or am I missing what this bug is about?

 If I set the !MailNotifier's mode=!["failing"], then the user that forced
 the build will only get mail if the forced build fails.  I think the issue
 is not that Buildbot doesn't behave as documented, just that users (at
 least some I have spoken to) expect that forced/try builds should be
 different from automatically-scheduled builds, in that the interested user
 should get mail whether or not the forced/try build failed, whereas they
 don't want an email for every successful automatically-scheduled build.

 I've considered subclassing !MailNotifier and overriding isMailNeeded() to
 include this kind of logic, as I don't think that just adding another mode
 such as "force" would address all my user's requirements - I basically
 need to send email for failing builds on ''some'' builders, but send
 emails for all force/try builds on ''all'' builders.  A slightly nicer
 option would be to add a parameter to the !MailNotifier that accepts a
 predicate function indicating whether or not mail should be sent.

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