如何从Jenkins构建失败电子邮件的收件人中删除用户

Question

I'm receiving daily "Jenkins build is unstable" emails for a project I'm no longer working on.

I can see from the build result (build.xml) that I'm in the list of "culprits", because of a commit I made some time ago, and since the build has been unstable for weeks, the list of culprits hasn't been cleared.

Since I'm no longer working on this project, I want to stop receiving email notifications from this Jenkins job. How can I remove myself from the recipients? Should I edit the build.xml of the last build? (EDIT: apparently this approach doesn't work)

Answer 1

It is possible, but a little complicated. First, you need to stop Jenkins or send it to quiet mode to avoid further builds.

As the actual list of culprits is calculated at runtime from all recently failed builds, you need to remove your ID from the culprits list in the build.xml of all failed builds (since the last successful one) where it is listed.

Finally restart Jenkins so the internal data structure is updated from the modified build.xmls.

So, if build 10 was the last successful one, you need to remove the ID from builds/11/build.xml, builds/12/build.xml, etc.

Answer 2

Could you just spam filter/block the email by title in your email client? Most Jenkins build emails will have a common title (with different only in status, build number). Builds from different jobs will have different common titles. So block the "offending" email by title.

To get Jenkins to 'release' you from the culprits, the build has to succeed. If you have access to the job configuration, you can make a fake success build (a simple "exit 0" in the command line will suffice), but this will clear all other culprits too.