Recipe build notifications should put result early in the subject

[James Westby]

Hi,

Here's the build notification emails I got from Launchpad today:

40 mins. ago [1/1] Launchpad Buildd System; [Build #2257409] i386 build of bzr-git 0.5.2+bzr1108~ppa72~natty1 in ubuntu natty RELEASE (bzr-daily PPA)
41 mins. ago [1/1] Launchpad Buildd System; [Build #2257408] i386 build of bzr-git 0.5.2+bzr1108~ppa72~maverick1 in ubuntu maverick RELEASE (bzr-daily PPA)
46 mins. ago [1/1] Launchpad Buildd System; [Build #2257400] i386 build of bzr-git 0.5.2+bzr1108~ppa72~lucid1 in ubuntu lucid RELEASE (bzr-daily PPA)
 Today 20:20 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22176] of ~bzr bzr-grep-daily in natty: Successfully built
 Today 20:18 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22177] of ~bzr bzr-grep-daily in karmic: Successfully built
 Today 20:16 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22175] of ~bzr bzr-grep-daily in maverick: Successfully built
 Today 20:16 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22174] of ~bzr bzr-grep-daily in lucid: Successfully built
 Today 17:56 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22161] of ~bzr bzr-loom-daily in karmic: Failed to upload
 Today 17:56 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22160] of ~bzr bzr-loom-daily in natty: Failed to upload
 Today 17:54 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22159] of ~bzr bzr-loom-daily in maverick: Failed to upload
 Today 17:54 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22158] of ~bzr bzr-loom-daily in lucid: Failed to upload
 Today 13:35 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22122] of ~bzr qbzr-daily in natty: Successfully built
 Today 13:31 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22121] of ~bzr qbzr-daily in maverick: Successfully built
 Today 13:29 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22120] of ~bzr qbzr-daily in lucid: Successfully built
 Today 13:28 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22119] of ~bzr bzr-gtk-daily in karmic: Successfully built
 Today 13:27 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22118] of ~bzr bzr-gtk-daily in natty: Successfully built
 Today 13:27 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22117] of ~bzr bzr-gtk-daily in maverick: Successfully built
 Today 13:24 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22116] of ~bzr bzr-gtk-daily in lucid: Successfully built
 Today 13:22 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22115] of ~bzr bzr-git-daily in natty: Successfully built
 Today 13:21 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22114] of ~bzr bzr-git-daily in maverick: Successfully built
 Today 13:19 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22113] of ~bzr bzr-git-daily in lucid: Successfully built
 Today 07:29 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22094] of ~bzr bzr-svn-daily in karmic: Failed to build
 Today 07:26 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22093] of ~bzr bzr-svn-daily in natty: Failed to build
 Today 07:23 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22092] of ~bzr bzr-svn-daily in maverick: Failed to build
 Today 07:18 [1/1] <email address hidden>; [recipe build #22091] of ~bzr bzr-svn-daily in lucid: Failed to build

I feel that the important information is too far along in the subject line. In fact in restricted views you
can't see it at all.

I think that the status of the build should be early in the subject line.

Binary build notifications don't have this issue, as I only receive them when something
is wrong.

Because Launchpad insists on sending me so many emails for recipe builds, I have taken to mainly ignoring
them, as I can't quickly scan for the interesting ones: the failures.

Thanks,

James

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

I'm fairly sure this is a dupe, I don't recall the # though :(.

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Robert, you mean bug 713627? Not sure if that's the one so I'm not duping. This one is requesting specifically to put the status in the beginning of the subject line where the other is about making recipes send less email. Perhaps the latter would fix the issue for James making the former less of an issue.

[j.c.sackett (jcsackett)]

I don't really think there's a dupe of this, per se. There are lots of bugs about build notification mail, but they each point to a discrete bit that's wrong with them. I'm setting status of this one similar to that of the other notification mail bugs; we can always still mark this as a dupe if we feel it's a subset of another bug.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Current output:
[recipe build #154033] of ~testing-cabal subunit-daily in precise: Failed to build
which is unchanged vs
[recipe build #22158] of ~bzr bzr-loom-daily in lucid: Failed to upload

so still an issue.

I think the content in [] can be skipped: the number isn't relevant for an email, the fact it is a recipe build is perhaps interesting.

I suggest:
<branch> in <suite>: status

and more in the body.

What do you think?