[llvm-dev] Fwd: buildbot failure in LLVM on clang-ppc64-elf-linux2

[Jonathan Roelofs via llvm-dev]

On 9/29/15 3:59 PM, Philip Reames via llvm-dev wrote:
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> On 09/29/2015 01:28 PM, David Blaikie via llvm-dev wrote:
>> The bot has been red and prone to (though not always - as Renato's
>> pointed out, a red bot that remains red may not send email, but purple
>> (exception)->red (even if it were red before the exceptional result)
>> does send email) send email on some of its failures, which adds noise
>> to the system and makes it hard for developers to trust/act on
>> buildbot results.
> Does anyone other than the bot owner get value out of this email? It
> seems like we should not be emailing contributors on a
> exceptional->error condition.  Making this change might cut down the
> noise on the bots materially.

It would certainly help if the bots emailed/irc-complained only their 
owners when svn issues happen. Very rarely (if ever?) could the 
committer legitimately be blamed for that.

Jon

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