Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/21] Docker and shippable updates

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Peter Maydell
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10 July 2017 at 15:17, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> I don't think full patchew reports are useful in a mailbox.
>>
>> I disagree. They could certainly be made terser but I think the general
>> workflow of posting automated testing reports to patch series is a
>> useful one.
>
> Agreed. What we want is a mode for the makefile where
> it doesn't even print the "   CC foo.o" lines (except
> perhaps for the case where it's going to print an error
> message, if possible, but that might not be doable), and
> then we can use that for patchew emails and also maybe
> for the Travis builds, whose logs are currently too long
> for the web viewer to cope with (might run into issues with
> travis thinking the build has stalled though.)

Using webmail (gmail) you get:

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Hi,

This series failed automatic build test. Please find the testing commands and
their output below. If you have docker installed, you can probably reproduce it
locally.
[...]
  CC      aarch64-softmmu/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.o
  CC      arm-softmmu/hw/net/vhost_net.o
  CC      aarch64-softmmu/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.o
  CC      arm-softmmu/hw/pcmcia/...

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also this one 132KB alone which makes thunderbird feature "filter
messages [Body]" slow to unresponsive:

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Hi,

This series failed build test on s390x host. Please find the details below.

Type: series
Message-id: address@hidden
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [[PATCH V7] 09/11] migration: calculate vCPU
blocktime on dst side
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I'm happy with the script output workflow, just say it could be more
useful if we can shorter it to focus on the problem, tailing last 500
stderr lines should be more than enough.