Re: failure emails assume nixpkgs changes are to blame

[Rob Vermaas]

Hi,

>>> Under the assumption that build processes are deterministic, it just
>>> lists all the committers to Emacs and/or Nixpkgs between the
>>> last-known-good build and the failed build.
>>
>> But it doesn't, it only lists the Nixpkgs ones, that's my point.
>> Eg see the input changes in http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6758185 .
>> There were changes in emacs and nixpkgs, but only the nixpkg committer
>> gets singled out for blame in the buildstatus email:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-buildstatus/2013-11/msg00000.html
>
> Ah, got it; sorry.
>
> Then I guess it’s a bug.  Rob, Eelco?
> (Note the manually-generated blame list here.  ;-))

This is because Hydra does not yet support extracting the user/emails
for Bazaar inputs. I have created a ticket for this
(https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/issues/137).

Cheers,
Rob

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Rob Vermaas

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