TL;DR: My goal is for each failed build (for builds I care about), I would like to know the cause of the build failure. The possibilities I care about right now are "infrastructure", "build system" or "developer". How would you recommend doing this?
More: I am fine with this process being manual (at least to start) as long as it can be modified programmatically somehow going forward. This would open the door to a "regular expression" style auto-classification (like the "Build Failure Analyzer Plugin" (1)) or a learning algorithm. I am struggling to find a way to assign a simple variable to a build and to be able to assign it AFTER the build has completed What I've tried: 1. *Metadata plugin* and manually set a String variable after the build is done. This seems to not be allowed -- it can only be set at build time? 2. "*Build Failure Analyzer Plugin*" (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+Failure+Analyzer) This works well for setting the build failure based upon a regular expression but I'm finding it difficult to use for my use-case for a few reasons: 1. Still no solution to report on the results 2. Sometimes the same error (eg Permission Denied: file XYZ.txt) will be caused by a developer and sometimes by the build system misbehaving. I would prefer manual control in these cases. 3. When we add a new "Build Failure Cause" regex, you need to rescan builds in order to properly assign these. There is a concern (voiced on the plugin page) of duplicate entries and also I'm not sure how to trigger a re-scan on all builders (we have 100+). 3. *BFA Plugin + mongodb + graphite* This seems like it could work to solve the reporting issues(#2-1), but not the other ones (#2-2, #2-3). What I'm considering: Scrape the logs from Jenkins into a custom web application and providing a simple interface to manually set the build failure cause. I could -- as a separate component -- implement the same "regex-based" classification that the BFA plugin does. I really don't want to maintain more infrastructure and code just to get a rather simple data point. Does anyone have any pointers? Is there a way to keep metadata about a build and update/query it after a build has completed? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/e987b17b-f3f7-4b7a-9e34-810e117e2e2f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
