Hello,

On Fri, 11 May 2012 11:09:59 +0200 Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:

• IRC is nice for this kind of announcements; you can even put it in the #linaro topic

• perhaps we can just add a banner to android-build.linaro.org?

• perhaps a Linaro services dashboard is what we miss? e.g. "Android build system: working" (green), or "broken (see LP #1234)"; Joey is running a basic HTTP status monitor as part of Linaro IS

Well, lack of context is indeed very bad thing. There was no known outages to Android Build as a service. So, my understanding is that Zack meant that for that particular day, there were lot of build failures, which is true, I looked at them too, identified something we can improve on Infra side (https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-android-infrastructure/+bug/997551), the rest where genuine compile errors. For those errors, https://android-build.linaro.org/ is *the dashboard*.

Ah, as it's confession time, some time ago that page was prefixed with content, not really related to the Build System function, which exactly complicates access to build dashboard (requires lot of vertical scrolling). IMHO, that text is misplaced there - it belongs to releases.linaro.org/snapshot.linaro.org, which are gateways for community access, and android-build.linaro.org is first of all internal build system. Having extra stuff there complicates access and maintenance.

• notifications about build system going down could go to the same places where build failures / successful builds are reported;

perhaps we need a dedicated "build-notifications" list or something like that