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So, I wonder how the OpenStack Gerrit avoids sending these start messages.
Has it been customized?

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:28 PM, James E. Blair <corvus at inaugust.com> wrote:

> Scott Lavender <slavender at internap.com> writes:
>
> > Does anyone know how to suppress the build started messages from Jenkins?
> > We have three gate jobs that are triggered by uploads to Gerrit. The
> > Gerrit change-set receives a single start message for each Jenkins job,
> and
> > a single message reporting the results of all three. This is a total of 4
> > messages. I noticed that the OpenStack Gerrit server only displays the
> > final summary message.
> >
> > Is this a configuration on the Jenkins or Gerrit side of the integration?
> > How is this accomplished?
> >
> > Thanks.....
>
> So a while back there were some complaints [1] that you couldn't easily
> see where in the approval/verification workflow a change was.
> Essentially, Jenkins would leave a -2 for a change, and the review table
> would looklike:
>
>         V  R  A
> Jenkins X
> Monty      +2
> Thierry       +2
>
> And then Thierry would reapprove it, because it was a transient error,
> and the table would look like this while the change is being tested:
>
>         V  R  A
> Jenkins X
> Monty      +2
> Thierry       +2
>
> So you couldn't easily tell that Thierry had done that.  So we started
> clearing the Jenkins vote as soon as the build starts.  This makes the
> current state of the change immediately obvious.  Unfortunately, it
> generates an email, even if we don't leave any text and only set the
> approval.  Since there's going to be an email anyway, I figured it ought
> to at least tell you what's going on.  So the email, and the text in it,
> are just a side effect of the vote clearing, which I think is very
> useful.
>
> Unfortunately, our choices are:
>
> 1) Vote clearing with email notification  [status quo]
> 2) No vote clearing (and no email)
> 3) Patch Gerrit to make sending an email optional when leaving a review
>
> (I get so much Gerrit email, I have mail filters for it anyway.)
>
> -Jim
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-ci/+bug/1012730
>



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