Re: Notification of your branch being tested by zero day bot?

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:46:18PM +0800, Philip Li wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 09:38:22AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:31:38 +0800
> > Philip Li <philip.li@intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:02:30AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:  
> > > > > Would it be possible to have an opt-in for the zero day bot to send an
> > > > > email when a branch is being tested? Similar to the "SUCCESS" opt-in
> > > > > email.  
> > > do you mean something like BUILD start notification? This is good idea,
> > > we can support this.
> > 
> > That would be great.
> > 
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > That is, it would be nice to see an email that lets you know that a
> > > > > branch you pushed to kernel.org is being tested. Currently there's a
> > > > > bit of limbo when a push happens, and you need to wait, perhaps several
> > > > > days, to see a result. In the mean time you have no idea if there's any
> > > > > progress going on. A notification would be nice.  
> > > > 
> > > > What is "implied" here is the fact that due to the flaky-ness of 0-day
> > > > these days, we really do not know if it is running or not.  
> > > sorry that 0day ci had issue in July time frame, but it was recovered
> > > from August to generate report continuously. We will keep monitoring the
> > > healthy status to avoid any inconvenience.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Lately it seems like it is "not" running, but due to the lack of any
> > > > status, it's really hard to tell how long a maintainer should wait
> > > > before "giving up" on getting a timely response and just relying on
> > > > their own judgement.  
> > > Currently, if a repo is opt in for success notification, it will receive
> > > build incomplete if the full build test can't be done within 1 day.
> > > We will consider to enable this for all maintainer's repo.
> > 
> > Hmm, perhaps that should be opt-in as well. Not sure if every build
> > maintainer would like that notification. But we should definitely try
> > to find a way to inform those that would like to be notified. Several
> > developers have mentioned they were unaware of the SUCCESS notification
> > opt in, and would like to be added to it. Perhaps a one time email to
> > all maintainers not currently opt-in to the success notification to ask
> > them if they would like to be opted in, instead of just spamming them
> > with this information.
> thanks for the suggestion, we will consult maintainers firstly to see
> whether any maintainer wants to opt in.

I would love to opt-in for this on all of my branches, and the stable
branches/trees you build.

thanks,

greg k-h