[Python-Dev] Buildbot failures

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:30:34 +0100
Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In my previous workplace if someone broke a build committing something 
> wrong he/she
> had to bring cake for everyone next meeting.
> 
> The cake is not really feasible I guess, but isn't it possible to notify 
> the developer that
> broke the build?

Some of us do the notifying manually, but it's quite boring
and bothersome.
Automating it is a bit tricky, since some of our tests (as well as some
of the buildslaves themselves) are a bit flaky and will produce
intermittent failures. But I think it's indeed the good direction.

Regards

Antoine.