Re: Sending an email as the build starts

On 7 March 2011 15:54, Adam Bruss <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi Steve,
>
>
>
> No I don’t think CC can send email anytime but at the end of the build
> process. What I’m talking about is using the ant mail task to send email. We
> made the emails look like the
>


That was my point, too.  And I'd reuse the stylesheets, if you're sending
mail from the server,

J.


> ones cruisecontrol sends by using the modifications.xsl as a base and
> making some mods. For example in our modded modifications.xsl there is a
> style section that presumably takes things directly from cruisecontrol.css.
>
>
>
> <style type="text/css">
>
>         body, table, form, input, td, th, p, textarea, select
>
>          {
>
>                        font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial;
>
>                        font-size: 9pt;
>
>          }
>
>
>
>         a:hover { color:#FC0; }
>
>
>
>         .main-panel { color:#FC0; }
>
>
>
>         .section-table { margin-top:10pt; }
>
>         .sectionheader { background-color:#006; color:#FFF; }
>
>         .section-data { font-size:8pt; color:#000; }
>
>         .section-oddrow { background-color:#F0F7FF; }
>
>         .section-evenrow { background-color:#FFF; }
>
>         .section-changenumber { background-color:#CFFFCC; }
>
> </style>
>
>
>
> We use the Nant <style> task to transform xml changes to html.
>
>
>
> Adam Bruss
>
> Development Engineer
>
> AWR Corporation/Simulation Technology & Applied Research
>
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>
> *From:* Steve Murphy [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 07, 2011 9:30 AM
>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Cruisecontrol-user] Sending an email as the build starts
>
>
>
> Thanks for the responses, I’ll respond to them all here instead of
> individually.
>
>
>
> Adam, I already have a htmlemail publisher configured to run at the end of
> the project to send out the test results.  Can I have this executed multiple
> times at different points during the project?
>
>
>
> Julian, with the Ant Bootstrapper, Is your thinking to have this use the
> ant Mail task to send the email?  Could I get this to use the same style
> sheets the htmlemail publisher uses?
>
> We have all the tests run over night and the triggered builds only run the
> tests for the current development effort.  So I have stayed away from having
> timeouts for the ant targets as the number of tests change frequently.
>
>
>
> Antoine, your suggestion is similar to Adam’s correct?  Or do I
> misunderstand what your saying?
>
>
>
> The dashboard and/or CC Config is a good idea, I will remind the developers
> they exist and see if that meets their requirements.
>
> The in house application we use to run the tests is suppose to monitor the
> tests and move things on when individual test actions timeout, however once
> in a while things go horribly wrong and everything comes to a stand still [image:
> Smile].  This happened to other day (build stalled for the entire weekend)
> which prompted the request for the start email.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Murphy
>
>
>
> P.S Resending a cut down email as my other one was too large (included my
> config.xml)
>
> *From:* Adam Bruss <[email protected]>
>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:35 PM
>
> *To:* [email protected]
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Cruisecontrol-user] Sending an email as the build starts
>
>
>
> I think your best bet is sending the mail at the start of your build
> process. The task would gather the changes, format them into an email body
> and send it using your builder’s mail task. That’s how we do it at least  in
> Nant.
>
>
>
> Adam Bruss
>
> Development Engineer
>
> AWR Corporation/Simulation Technology & Applied Research
>
> 11520 N. Port Washington Rd., Suite 201
>
> Mequon, WI  53092  USA
>
> P: 1.262.240.0291 x104
>
> F: 1.262.240.0294
>
> E: [email protected]
>
> W: http://www.awrcorp.com
>
>
>
> *From:* Steve Murphy [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 02, 2011 7:00 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Cruisecontrol-user] Sending an email as the build starts
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> At the request of one of the developers that use the CruiseControl system I
> maintain, I’m looking for a way to send out an email when a build starts.
> He reasoning being that after receiving the start email if he does not
> receive the pass/fail email within x minutes he knows something has gone
> wrong and the system needs looking at.
>
>
>
> I have though about having another project use the file system modification
> set to detect a file that is created by the main project, this project would
> probably only contain an email publisher.  However before I do this I
> thought I’d check if there was anything in the configuration that might
> already do this.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve Murphy
>
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