RE: Integrating Anthill with a Problem Report systyem?

Oh don't get me started on the bugs of Anthill OS! :)

Yes, if there're any problems, Anthill sits there for many days trying to do 
a build but doesn't complain or anything.  And I believe the the "pause and 
flush queue" are just ornamental and actually don't serve any pruporse, I 
have to stop Tomcat literally to flush the queue!!

The other annoying thing is that you can't tell her royal highness (the 
Anthill) to do a build when our princess clearly doesn't feel like it and no 
one is there late at night to interact and check the "Force a Build" box.  
People should be able to manage a software and not software managing them, 
well I mean that as a figure of speech really but you get the gist of it. :)

Anthill guys please work harder to give us the next OS.  You guys are great 
:)



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Hi,


	Has anybody given any thought to integration between Anthill and a Problem 
Report system like Bugzilla or similar?

	I have seen cases where a build was being done every 30mins. Sometimes it 
failed and remained failed for hours. Having it email again and again was a 
pain. Emails became noise. If we had Anthill add a Problem Report 
automatically to Bugzilla (or similar), that would have become noise too. 
What can be done, then?

	I was thinking that what you want is to be able to disable timed builds 
when a build fails. Basically, if a timed build fails you would:

1) enter a PR against Bugzilla or similar, attaching whatever report you 
wanted (junit output, whatever)
2) switch to non-timed builds
3) if the PR system was closed, have a way to switch the timed builds ON 
again


	Has anybody given this any thought? It would require a mechanism of plugins 
to talk to different PR systems (JIRA, Bugzilla, etc) and a mechanism to be 
notified back. Web Services is something that comes to mind here, but 
anything goes as long as it can be done in a straightforward manner?

	I think that #1 can be done with a custom Ant task. So, it could be invoked 
from the build.xml. The problem with that is that if the developer tests 
locally, he'd be sending a bug and you don't want that. You'd have to do a 
"If I am running inside ANthill then submit the PR". For #2 you'd need an 
Anthill option to "switch to another schedule if teh build fails", and make 
it switch to a apaused schedule. The real problem is #3, as it would require 
instrumenting the PR system and Anthill, so they talk to each other.


	Ideas? Suggestions? URLs?

	Thanks,

marcio

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