Re: [BUG] test suite broken with GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:51:20AM +0200, Lars Schneider wrote:

> >> Off topic, is it possible to receive mail notifications from Travis
> >> when a fault is found in either 'pu', 'next' or 'master'? I know how
> >> to do it in Jenkins, but I'm not familiar with Travis and there's no
> >> obvious button from the web page..
> > 
> > I looked into this a bit for my personal builds. Notification config has
> > to go into the .travis.yml file[1].  So I think the best we could do is
> > send a notification email to some mailing list, and then let people
> > subscribe to that (or it could go to git@vger; I don't know how noisy it
> > would be).
> 
> A separate mailing list sounds like a very good idea to me!
> Maybe "git-builds@vger.kernel.org" or something?
> What would it take to set something up like this?

I suspect that emailing the vger admins is the right place (or that they
can point us in the right direction, or tell us to get lost). The best
address is probably postmaster@vger.kernel.org.

(I resisted just cc-ing them here to see if other people had opinions on
just sending the output to the regular list).

-Peff