[yocto] New ways of keeping up with the status of the build.

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Darren Hart <darren.hart at intel.com> wrote:
> On 11/09/2011 08:00 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Flanagan, Elizabeth
>> <elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:
>>> I've implemented two new ways of keeping up with the yocto
>>> autobuilder's build status (other than the obvious way of looking at
>>> autobuilder.yoctoproject.org:8010 of course)
>>>
>>> First is through the yocto-builds at yoctoproject.org email list. If you
>>> haven't joined it yet, please do. It's in testing phase right now and
>>> only sends out the last 20 lines of the autobuilder log on a failure
>>> and the URL to the steps that failed.
>>> The second is through the #yoctobuildstatus irc channel. yocto-ab-bot
>>> is the yocto-autobuilder IRC bot which announces build events to the
>>> channel or via PM. I'm keeping it off of #yocto to keep it from
>>> spamming the channel but it should be relatively low traffic. Again,
>>> this is all still in testing phase, so things may change.
>>
>> There's also http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org:8010/rss which I
>> suspect is under-utilized by people.
>>

I'm glad others are using it. I have my chumby set up to poll the rss
feed @ home.

> Nice. Added to my feed, with a filter on "failed". The subjects are
> really long and difficult to parse. Could these be massaged a bit? Just
> dropping 75% of the commit hash would help a lot :)

Sure, I'll see if I can squish it down.

-- 
Elizabeth Flanagan
Yocto Project
Build and Release