Re: [Qemu-devel] buildbot failure in qemu on pci_i386_debian_5_0

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 11 June 2011 14:34, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:23 AM,  <qemu@buildbot.b1-systems.de> wrote:
>>> The Buildbot has detected a new failure on builder pci_i386_debian_5_0 while building qemu.
>>> Full details are available at:
>>>  http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu/builders/pci_i386_debian_5_0/builds/0
>>
>> This is the first email notification from the QEMU buildbot, which
>> automatically builds qemu.git and several subsystem repositories (pci,
>> block, qmp, ppc, s390, agraf's xen, and trivial-patches).  Builds run
>> every day and the goal is to catch build breakages before they enter
>> qemu.git.
>>
>> To see the build errors relating to this failure, follow the link
>> above and select compile stdio output:
>
> Is it possible to make the emails include the last 10 lines or
> so of stdio for the failed stage? That would (usually) mean you
> didn't have to bounce through the web pages to know what broke...

Yes, but I think it requires writing a customer formatter function.
Here is the documentation including an example of a custom message
formatter:

http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/current/MailNotifier.html#MailNotifier

Perhaps someone has time to write the Python function that does what
Peter suggests?  As an additional customization it would be nice to
ignore git update errors since they are likely to be transient network
or git daemon issues - no email notifications need to be sent to the
mailing list.

Stefan