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On 18/01/17 09:04, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:19:19 +0100 |
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> Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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>> <snip> |
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>> That makes sense. My other comment initially reading your email would |
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>> be, send those emails to gentoo-core or -project or whatever. If |
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>> others don't get to feel the pain (of every half-hour error emails, |
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>> for example), they will be much less compelled to fix the problem. So |
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>> absorbing this "pain" into just you or infra makes us less scalable as |
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>> a distribution, and less likely that someone will feel motivated to |
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>> add the extra bits of automation (like a git hook) that will make this |
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>> problem go away. |
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> +1 , I was aware that "somebody" knew the tree was breaking, but I had |
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> no understanding of what was breaking, why it was breaking, or even how |
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> people knew it was breaking. |
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> |
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> And so upon reading the original email hearing that people could |
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> even be notified of this fact, made me immediately question what I should |
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> be doing to see said notifications, or if there was even a page |
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> that I could check periodically to know what the state of the sync was. |
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> |
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> As the saying goes, information and awareness of the problem is a critical |
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> first step to solving the problem. |
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Is this something that could be woven into the |
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"gentoo-automated-testing" mailing-list ? Ever since I've been poking at |
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mgorny+ 's efforts into CI I've been subscribed, and it would be a |
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useful central place to put such reports. Is that viable? |
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