Notifications (Cuirass Reference Manual)

2 Notifications

Cuirass supports different build notifications types, that can be passed in the notifications field of the specification record, see Specifications.

Cuirass sends build notifications each time a build is broken or fixed.

Email
Mastodon
RSS

2.1 Email

Email build notifications can be enabled using the following record.

Data Type: email ¶

from: The email From field, as a string.
to: The email To field, as a string.
server: The mail server connection string. Cuirass uses the mailutils package. Hence the server can be specified as a remote SMTP mailbox (see SMTP Mailboxes in Mailutils) or as a program mailbox (see Program Mailboxes in Mailutils).

2.2 Mastodon

Mastodon build notifications can be enabled using the following record.

Data Type: mastodon ¶

The Mastodon credentials must be defined as Cuirass parameters, see Parameters.

2.3 RSS

Cuirass is proposing a build notification RSS feed at the following URL:

‘http://cuirass-url/events/rss[?specification=spec]’ By default build notifications are sent for all specifications. If the specification argument is passed, they can be restricted to the spec specification.