How to set build description if build times out?

[Matthew...@diamond.ac.uk]

The build timeout plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build-timeout+Plugin) has a job configuration checkbox "Writing the build description" (I think this was added in 1.9). However, there is nowhere to actually set the text of the build description in the event of a timeout.

Where can I set this?

Thanks


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[Jesse Farinacci]

Greetings,

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:32 AM, <Matthew...@diamond.ac.uk> wrote:
> The build timeout plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build-timeout+Plugin) has a job configuration checkbox "Writing the build description" (I think this was added in 1.9). However, there is nowhere to actually set the text of the build description in the event of a timeout.
>
> Where can I set this?
> Thanks

You can't. Check out:

https://github.com/jenkinsci/build-timeout-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/build_timeout/BuildTimeoutWrapper.java#L106
https://github.com/jenkinsci/build-timeout-plugin/blob/master/src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/build_timeout/Messages.properties#L3

-Jesse

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[Matthew...@diamond.ac.uk]

I see, it uses a standard message text. That's good enough for me - the help text wasn't clear, that's all.

[cjo]

From the code, it looks like the build description is hard coded, you cannot specify your own in this case.

The description set is 

"Build timed out (after {0} minutes). Marking the build as {1}."

where {0} is the time period it aborted at
and {1} is either "aborted" or "failed" depending on checkbox "Fail the build"

If you want your own message you could use the descriptor setter plugin, which can write a different message for failed /aborted builds, (Advanced section)

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Description+Setter+Plugin 

and you can use the Regular expression to search for the above message in the log.

Chris