Improve mail notifier

[jocelyn]

Hi, I'm a new buildbot user and I'd like to know if it's possible to send more informations about the compile thank to mail notifier? For exemple I'd like to receive by email the compile time elapsed.

Regards

Jocelyn

[dustin]

See the messageFormatter in the documentation. It may take a bit of work to extract that particular piece of information, but it's available.

[jocelyn]

Thank for your help. Do you know how the method getSummaryStatistic() works cause I'm a bit confuse?

Thank

Jocelyn

[dustin]

It's a variant on Python's reduce that can sum (or multiply, concatenate, or whatever) a particular attribute of all steps in a build.

    def getSummaryStatistic(self, name, summary_fn, initial_value=_sentinel):
        """Summarize the named statistic over all steps in which it
        exists, using combination_fn and initial_value to combine multiple
        results into a single result.  This translates to a call to Python's
        X{reduce}::
            return reduce(summary_fn, step_stats_list, initial_value)
        """