[Buildbot-devel] Desktop Notifications

[Kevin Funk]

On Monday 01 December 2014 17:57:53 Kay Hayen wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> for my private Buildbot instances, I would like to configure desktop
> notifications to be sent to remote systems in case of failed builds. The
> web status is nice, but doesn't raise alerts, which is what I want though.
> 
> Has anybody ever done something like that?
> 
> It would seem that something like buildbot.status.mail.MailNotifier might
> be good starting point for how to do this. Maybe using XMPP protocol, and
> using the clients ability to put desktop notifications (and history) might
> be more on target too. I found "bb_applet.py", but I cannot get
> "gnomeapplet" it wants to import, so I suspect it's heavily outdated, it
> was last really updated years ago.
> 
> So let me know. In my use case, I run the private Buildbot while I develop,
> to tell me immediately about regressions. Polling it with web status
> normally happens when it doesn't fail, and doesn't happen when it fails.
> Human driven polling... :)
> 
> Yours,
> Kay

Hey,

Could indeed be interesting to have something along this in the web status (in 
Nine, maybe?), i.e. by using Web Notifications [1][2] for showing 
notifications.

Just some food for thought.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/notification
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