[Python-Dev] No email about buildbot failures for 3.1?

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 14:49, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>>> What is the specific checkin? What specific builds failed?
>>>
>>
>> How about one that just happened:
>> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/3.x.stable/sparc%20solaris10%20gcc%203.x/builds/126
>> . If you look at the python-checkins for the revision
>> (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2009-January/077369.html)
>> at the index, there is no email about the buildbot failure.
>
> In that case, no mail was sent because this builder had a failed build
> prior to this build already:
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/3.x.stable/sparc solaris10 gcc
> 3.x/builds/125
>
> The MailNotifier is currently configured to send mail only when the
> slave transitions from passed to failed ('problem'), not while it stays
> in failed. That could be changed, of course (to either 'failing':
> send mail for all failed builds, or 'all': send mail for all builds).
> However, this has been the configuration since buildbot was first
> installed, so its not a recent configuration change.

Ah, OK. Thanks for the clarification, Martin. Guess 3.1 has just been
failing for a while then.

-Brett