Dear Remy,
In message 3efb10970901031205p5a54c743y2fdf4b7a82949e9f@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
I will investigate some more on tools to use (e.g. buildbot), and if I cannot find anything suitable, I will stick to the shell script for the time being :-) (being pragmatic)
DUTS (http://www.denx.de/wiki/DUTS/DUTSDocs) makes such an approach, too - but it goes one step further and adds automatic regression testing, too.
But (just thinking out loud), build failures are not allowed to happen, and when it happens at a certain time, is it so bad to sent it to the (or any) mailinglist?
Certain failures are known, and exist for a long time.
So, for example:
- build broken -> sent mail (goto step 2, or 3)
Nobody will remember this any more two weeks later.
- build more broken-> sent another mail (goto step 2, or 3)
- build repaired->sent mail... (goto step 4)
- and then (forever) silence... until step 1 happens again.
It's a tightrope walk. If you send a build failure report just once, it may be easily forgotten, so you have to send reminders. If you send reminders too often, messages will be ignored quickly.
IMHO the only thing we can do is to use a bug tracking system where broken builds are flagged, and where responsibility can be flagged, too.
Unfortunately our gnats expert ran away leaving the last 10% of the task of setting up bugs.denx.de undone. [Any volunteers here?]
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk