Hi all,
As apparently some maintainers are not aware of their packages failing
in openSUSE:Factory (openSUSE Tumbleweed), I implemented a quick script
today that finds all the current failures and sends a notification to
the maintainer(s) (as defined in the metadata, same info as osc
maintainer gives) in the hope that the maintainers will realize this.
The notification is sent out after the package failed for 7 days. If
there is already a submit request pending to Factory (which hopefully
fixes the issue), the notification is suppressed (the staging process
can sometimes take longer, and I think it would be annoying to be
reminded in this case).
The message looks like the one below.
Feel free to let me know your thoughts about this; if you think it's
useful or not. The aim, of course, is to get Tumbleweed in the best
possible shape for our users.
Cheers,
Dominique
-------- Forwarded Message --------From: DimStar
To: Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar>
Subject: openSUSE Tumbleweed - open-vm-tools - Build fail notification
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:25:56 -0000
Dear Dominique Leuenberger
Please be informed that the package 'open-vm-tools' in openSUSE Tumbleweed has
not have a successful build since Sat Oct 18 07:52:54 2014.
This can be due to an error in your package directly or could be caused
by a package you depend on to build. In any case, please do your utmost to
get the status back to building.
You will get another reminder in a week if the package still fails by then.
*** NOTE: This is an attempt to raise awareness of the maintainers about broken
builds in Tumbleweed. Please let me know if you think this is useless
and a waste of resources
Kind regards,
Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar
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Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger