Bug 200399 - New EWS: Notify person on failure
Summary: New EWS: Notify person on failure
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Tools / Tests (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Local Build
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Aakash Jain
URL:
Keywords: InRadar
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Reported: 2019-08-02 11:42 PDT by Daniel Bates
Modified: 2020-08-25 09:13 PDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Daniel Bates 2019-08-02 11:42:25 PDT
Unlike the old EWS the new EWS system does not comment on bugs when a failure occurs. As a result of this lack of bug commenting => there is a lack of bug emails => a person must manually poll each of their bugs to know if the EWS found a problem. Different EWS bots take different lengths of time to process a patch plus patches could be sitting in queues waiting to be processed. Polling for EWS status either is inefficient and wastes many man-hours. (This includes implicit polling by way of leaving the browser window open and glancing at the bubbles every so often). We should add some mechanism (maybe an opt-in registration) for people that want notifications about EWS failures to receive them.

Concrete example, I posted a patch for bug #199960 a week ago, forgot about it and thought the reviewers forgot about it. Went to go check that bug today to find that the patch failed on the ios-wk2 EWS bot. Some reviewers are naturally hesitant to review patches that caused EWS failures (there's a lot of reasons why). If I had known days ago about this failure then I would have updated the patch and may have already got it reviewed and landed.
Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2019-08-02 11:42:40 PDT
<rdar://problem/53872198>
Comment 2 Daniel Bates 2019-08-02 12:08:56 PDT
It would also be cool to be able to opt-in to receive notification on patch failures for bugs **I am interested in**. Old EWS supported this by way of Bugzilla bug mail settings.
Comment 3 Aakash Jain 2019-09-19 09:37:01 PDT
We removed the comments as per the discussion on webkit-dev: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2019-June/030683.html
Comment 4 Aakash Jain 2019-12-03 04:17:07 PST
I sent out a survey to collect more info about this: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2019-December/030980.html
Comment 5 Aakash Jain 2020-08-25 09:13:56 PDT
Email notifications are now enabled. See https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-August/031358.html