Thinktank: CI's, compiler lists, and project automation

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 03/05/2018 02:42 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> On 03/04/2018 02:05 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>> On 03/03/2018 10:22 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>
>>> You should get an email notification about failed builds [1] [2],
>>
>> Weird. Never worked for me. Will have to check into that.
>>
> 
> Ahh, it looks like travis disregards the github email address (perhaps 
> it can't access it, or indirectly tell github to email me?), and the 
> only way to receive travis email notifications is to expose the desired 
> email address to the general public via either .travis.yml or the git 
> commit author.
> 
> (Un)fortunately, I have a far more effective, reliable method of 
> filtering spam than the "state of the art" gmail heuristics: I run a 
> mail server, create domain-specific email addresses, and delete any 
> accounts that get spammed (knowing full well who it was that leaked my 
> email). I was never stupid enough to configure git with a legitimate 
> email address I actually check...I have better things to do than fight 
> spam and regularly check some "spam folder".
> 
> Travis (not to mention Git itself) doesn't appear to support the 
> post-1980 reality of email, ie, "Publicly-posted addressed WILL be 
> spammed, hard"), thus, even though I get GitHub notifications just fine, 
> I haven't been getting notifications from travis even though its linked 
> to my github account.
> 
> </rant>

Hooray "web 2.0" :/