EWS should immediately notify patch authors about failures (and maybe when everything is green too)

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

It's a huge waste of time that you are no longer informed when a build fails on EWS. This seriously delays urgent work, as you only start working on fixes when you happen to manually poll, or even worse, when a reviewer tells you to.

It's good to not spam everyone, but patch author should be notified by EWS immediately I think. Some ideas:

- e-mail;
- IRC;
- browser notifications when bug page is open.

The latter might be best, as it also gives some control over whether to get pinged - keep the bug open if you care, close it if it's not urgent, and you cannot afford distraction now.

[Sam Weinig]

If we do this, it should be opt-in.  At least in my workflow, this would be more annoying than helpful.

[Ahmad Saleem]

I think it is partially implemented already in EWS as of today:

-> Build fails - Email (need to be in Contributors.json - if I am not wrong)
-> Test fails - Email

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Do we need to enhance it with `notifications` or make it more streamlined etc., I think we can raise new bug with new ideas or we might even have it already.

Should we close this? @Alexey

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I think so too, but I almost never post PRs that can break the build at this point, and don't have hands-on experience. Adding Aakash and Ryan who would have the most insight.