On 18/01/17 09:04, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:19:19 +0100 > Dirkjan Ochtman <d...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> <snip> >> That makes sense. My other comment initially reading your email would >> be, send those emails to gentoo-core or -project or whatever. If >> others don't get to feel the pain (of every half-hour error emails, >> for example), they will be much less compelled to fix the problem. So >> absorbing this "pain" into just you or infra makes us less scalable as >> a distribution, and less likely that someone will feel motivated to >> add the extra bits of automation (like a git hook) that will make this >> problem go away. > +1 , I was aware that "somebody" knew the tree was breaking, but I had > no understanding of what was breaking, why it was breaking, or even how > people knew it was breaking. > > And so upon reading the original email hearing that people could > even be notified of this fact, made me immediately question what I should > be doing to see said notifications, or if there was even a page > that I could check periodically to know what the state of the sync was. > > As the saying goes, information and awareness of the problem is a critical > first step to solving the problem. Is this something that could be woven into the "gentoo-automated-testing" mailing-list ? Ever since I've been poking at mgorny+ 's efforts into CI I've been subscribed, and it would be a useful central place to put such reports. Is that viable?
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