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How can I stop cruise control re-building after a failed build?

I got back from the weekend to discover that somebody ****ahem**** had missed a file commit last thing Friday afternoon... Cruise control has been having fun, and tried to re-build every five minutes since then despite no further commits.

This means that my colleagues and I have received approximately six hojillion emails from cruise control. A single fail email would be more than enough to notify us.

Is there any way to stop cruise control building on failure, at least until a new commit occurs?

Edit: Added config xml

<project name="XXXX">
<listeners>
  <currentbuildstatuslistener file="logs/${project.name}/status.txt" />
</listeners>
<bootstrappers>
  <svnbootstrapper file="https://XXXXX/trunk/build/cruisecontrol.xml" username="XXXX" password="XXXX" />
</bootstrappers>
<modificationset quietperiod="300">
  <svn localWorkingCopy="projects/${project.name}/" RepositoryLocation="https://XXXXX/trunk/project1" username="XXXX" password="XXXX" />
  <svn localWorkingCopy="projects/${project.name}/" RepositoryLocation="https://XXXXX/trunk/project2" username="XXXX" password="XXXX" />
  <svn localWorkingCopy="projects/${project.name}/" RepositoryLocation="https://XXXXX/trunk/project3" username="XXXX" password="XXXX" />
  <svn localWorkingCopy="projects/${project.name}/" RepositoryLocation="https://XXXXX/trunk/project4" username="XXXX" password="XXXX" />
</modificationset>
<schedule interval="300">
  <ant anthome="apache-ant-1.7.0" buildfile="projects/${project.name}/build/cruisecontrol.xml" propertyfile="projects/${project.name}/project1/production.build.properties" />
</schedule>
<log dir="logs/${project.name}/">
  <merge file="projects/${project.name}/_reports/checkstyle_report.xml" />
  <merge dir="projects/${project.name}/_reports/pmd_report.xml" />
  <merge dir="projects/${project.name}/_reports/junit" />
</log>
<publishers>
  <onsuccess>
    <artifactspublisher dest="artifacts/${project.name}" dir="projects/${project.name}/_dist" />
    <artifactspublisher dest="artifacts/${project.name}" dir="projects/${project.name}/_reports" subdirectory="_reports"/>
  </onsuccess>
  <email spamWhileBroken="true" returnAddress="XXX@EXAMPLE.com" subjectPrefix="[BUILD]" buildResultsURL="http://XXXXX/dashboard/build/detail/project" mailHost="mail.EXAMPLE.com" skipUsers="true" >
    <failure address="XXX@EXAMPLE.com" />
    <success address="XXX@EXAMPLE.com"/>
 </email>
</publishers>

Solution

  • Isn't buildafterfailed attribute of <project> the thing you need?

    Description of the attribute in the CruiseControl config reference:

    Should CruiseControl keep on building even though it has failed and no new modifications are detected? This feature is useful if you want CruiseControl to detect situations where a build fails because of outside dependencies (like temporary failing database connection).