Jenkins: Gerrit event trigger plugin

Question

Need some help. Do we have any option to filter specific users for Gerrit event plugin. currently its triggering for all which i don't want to trigger for every one in the team.

Answer 1

You can't configure the Gerrit Trigger plugin to trigger only for some specific users but you can use a workaround to accomplish something like this.

When the job is triggered by Gerrit Trigger plugin some environment variables are automatically set. The more useful in your case are:

• GERRIT_CHANGE_OWNER_NAME
• GERRIT_CHANGE_OWNER_EMAIL
• GERRIT_PATCHSET_UPLOADER_NAME
• GERRIT_PATCHSET_UPLOADER_EMAIL
• GERRIT_EVENT_ACCOUNT_NAME
• GERRIT_EVENT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL

You can check some of these variables and abort the build if he/she isn't one of the specific users.