buildbot questions

[William Siegrist]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Marko Käning wrote:

> 
> On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:06 PM, William Siegrist wrote:
>> The buildbot will eventually email committers and maintainers when something fails.  
> 
> Yes, that feature would be really great! Even now, although buildbot is not yet widely announced.
> I dug myself through some compile-stdio right now (I stopped downloading one after it had reached a size of 1GB...) and spotted that e.g. gwenhywfar had a missing dep to pkgconfig.
> 
> 	I'd vote for an (perhaps opt-in) email sending possibility to maintainers already now, since it simply makes so much sense!!!
> 
> Let me know if I could be of any help here.
> I already had a quick look at the /contrib/buildbot/buildmaster.config and wonder how the email-sending would have to be configured in there...
> 

Start here: http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/current/

Look for MailNotifier. If you can figure it out, the help would be appreciated, otherwise we'll get to it eventually. 

-Bill