Bug 272854

Summary: Many port commits notification e-mails are lost
Product: Services Reporter: Yuri Victorovich <yuri>
Component: Core InfrastructureAssignee: Philip Paeps <philip>
Status: Closed Overcome By Events    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: philip
Priority: ---    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-07-31 20:27:20 UTC
For example, these there were no notifications about these recent commits:

commit 71d9f039dbb618b7ddd3d95d31bc37a97e8c190c (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Yuri Victorovich <yuri@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 31 12:58:09 2023

    devel/py-scikit-build-core: Update 0.4.7 → 0.4.8
    
    Reported by:    portscout

commit 3577033cc61a17e73fcbed4c8958dd76378853b7
Author: Yuri Victorovich <yuri@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 31 12:49:52 2023

    shells/nushell: Update 0.83.0 → 0.83.1
    
    Reported by:    portscout

commit 2db57b4a93a9a1f96bc77cd511459fb71f0a6dd7
Author: Yuri Victorovich <yuri@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 31 12:23:21 2023

    sysutils/rtx: Update 1.35.2 → 1.35.7
    
    Reported by:    portscout

commit f7ec65391bc391b525411e72722b6ad14f5c92e6
Author: Yuri Victorovich <yuri@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 31 12:04:56 2023

    textproc/vacuum: Update 0.3.0 → 0.3.1
    
    Reported by:    portscout

commit 4ca9e23c83362f76944dd72ca22361e8f636345f
Author: Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 31 12:32:03 2023

    mail/spamassassin-devel: Fix syntax error

commit d8e79d461a2e8c97d5968549930fd9b5ad5be180
Author: Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 31 11:19:15 2023

    Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk: Sort lang (should be part of b98f62b5ec911448e27bf20b679c960242547038)


among others.

I am subscribed to ports-committers@FreeBSD.org.

(I did look in the spam folder - they aren't there either).
Comment 1 Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-08-01 03:28:15 UTC
One person submitted a lot of commits right before the point of malfunction. Maybe the system gets clogged with messages and loses some as a result.
Comment 2 Philip Paeps freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-08-01 03:49:51 UTC
Email is not a real-time system.  Messages may be delayed for up to several days.  While delays of more than a few minutes are increasingly rare in this day and age, they do happen from time to time.

The commits you list each found their way to the archives within a few hours after your filed this bug.  As far as I can tell, they were delivered to your mailbox too.

This is probably "Closed: overcome by events" but I'll try to find some time in the coming days to investigate why these messages were queued up for so long ... before the logs expire.

Thanks for your report.  We don't have clusteradm bandwidth for detailed service level monitoring beyond "is anything on fire".  Reports like these often help us identify fires before they break out. :)


devel/py-scikit-build-core: Update 0.4.7 → 0.4.8
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-ports-all/2023-July/075098.html

shells/nushell: Update 0.83.0 → 0.83.1
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-ports-all/2023-July/075099.html

sysutils/rtx: Update 1.35.2 → 1.35.7
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-ports-all/2023-July/075100.html

textproc/vacuum: Update 0.3.0 → 0.3.1
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-ports-all/2023-July/075097.html

mail/spamassassin-devel: Fix syntax error
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-ports-all/2023-July/075096.html

Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk: Sort lang (should be part of
b98f62b5ec911448e27bf20b679c960242547038)
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-ports-all/2023-July/075095.html
Comment 3 Philip Paeps freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-08-01 03:54:28 UTC
(In reply to Yuri Victorovich from comment #1)
> One person submitted a lot of commits right before the point of malfunction.
> Maybe the system gets clogged with messages and loses some as a result.

Plausible.  We've also had reports in the past of end-of-month automation (list archive rotation, etc) slowing down mail delivery for some.  I thought we'd mitigated most of that, but there may still be things we can improve.