[Buildroot] Changes in the Buildroot autobuilders

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2013-06-18 09:16 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:21:17 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> >   So I think a nice solution would be to add a script in support/scripts 
> > that explicitly encodes all the maintainers - maintainers can add 
> > themselves with patches (just like in the kernel). The a.b.o would fetch 
> > the script once a day just before sending out its daily mails, and call 
> > it with everything it knows about the build failure set in the environment.
> 
> This does sound like a nice idea, but I would like it to also handle
> architecture maintainers if possible.
> 
> So something like:
> 
> support/script/get_maintainer --arch arc --package tvheadend
> 
> would return:
> 
> Mischa Jonker <Mischa.Jonker@synopsys.com>
> 'Yann E. MORIN' <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> 
> the first being the architecture maintainer, the second being the
> package maintainer.

OK, I'll code this, then.

> But then, I would probably have to send one e-mail per failure, because
> grouping them would be hard since there may be another failure for
> tvheadend, but not on the ARC architecture.

Maybe you'd want to separate the mails:
  - one for packages
  - one for achitectures

> >   However, Spenser points out in another mail:
> > 
> > > I think many people would like to know if something they did may have
> > > triggered a bug, not just the maintainer of the package.
> > 
> >   I could agree with sending mails automatically to the authors of a 
> > package commit if the commit was done in the last week or so.
> 
> Hum, ok. Not impossible to do, for sure.

Yes, sounds like a good idea.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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