[Buildbot-devel] MailNotifier mode - append to list of interested users?

[Greg Ward]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:37, Mark MacVicar <mark.macvicar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone who has worked with Buildbot in larger teams have any
> suggestions or advice?

On 19 August 2008, Sebastien Douche said:
> Hi Mark,
> here I send a mail on buildbot mailiing list (all developers are
> members of the list), for :
> 
> - failures on commits (BB make unit tests + create egg)
> 
> - each nightly build result
> 
> The principle behind is : collective ownership (XP principle).

Similar solution for us (~20 developers and growing): every developer is
expected to read the nightly build email.  When all the nightly builds
pass, this takes a second or two.  When there are failures, it takes a
bit more time.  (I have written a LogObserver that scans for error
messages, and a custom StatusReceiver to send email that includes the
error logs.  It's rather specific to our setup, but works pretty well.)

Recently, we took things a little bit further in order to increase the
penalty for breaking the build: if you were responsible for the last
break, you have to track down the cause of the next break.  (We're not
doing continuous integration yet because we don't have an incremental
build, so our granularity is nightly.)  I think this was based on an
idea in Joel Spolsky's blog.

        Greg