Re: Missing kernelci bot emails?

[Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>]

Hi Alan,

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 04:35:40PM -0300, Alan Zanoni Peixinho wrote:
> Apologies for the delay — I wanted to take a proper look at the
> notifications system first, since it's a part of the KernelCI
> Dashboard I hadn't explored in depth before.

No problem, thank you for looking into it.

> From local testing, the system appears to be working as intended. What
> I did find is that a summary email is only sent when two conditions
> are both met:
>     1. A recent checkout exists. The subscribed branch must have a
> checkout that started between 5 and 29 hours before the daily run. The
> 5-hour delay gives builds and tests time to finish reporting, and only
> the most recent checkout in that window is used.
>     2. At least one test changed state. Looking at the last 7 days, a
> test must show a regression (PASS to FAIL), a fix (FAIL to PASS), or
> unstable behaviour (flapping, or inconclusive results such as ERROR or
> SKIP). If everything is stable, the report is skipped.
> 
> Debugging against
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git, all
> the tests I can see in the current window are passing with no state
> changes, which is why the notification is being
>   skipped. Does that match your expectation — that there simply
> haven't been any status changes recently?

Ah, that would expain it then, thanks. If possible, I would actually
like to receive an email even if the status hasn't changed but the HEAD
commit of the tested branch _has_ changed since last time. That way, I
know that the tests have run without having to poll the dashboard. Is
that possible with the current system?

> There is also a flag to send the summary every day (when we have
> builds) regardless of whether anything changed on test status — we
> already use it for the mainline tree. If you'd prefer that for arm64,
> I'm happy to enable it.

That's a bit noisy; it would be more helpful to have one email each time
I push to the branch.

Cheers,

Will