Re: failure emails assume nixpkgs changes are to blame

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 13/11/13 22:53, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

>>> 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?

It's because the Bazaar plugin doesn't implement the getCommits method yet, so
Hydra can only get the commits in the Git inputs of the jobset (i.e. nixpkgs and
hydraConfig).

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/