Notifications for when pipelines are fixed
Problem to solve
If a pipeline becomes red/failed, an email is sent as notification. However, if that pipeline becomes green/successful again, no update is sent. In order to know, a person would have to proactively go into the web experience to check. This is not an effective use of their time - if we think it's important enough to send an email when they break, it is important enough to send an email when restored.
Proposal
- Send an e-mail for the first green/successful pipeline after a red/failed pipeline on the same commit, branch, or tag.
Testing required before rollout?
#24309 (comment 348921044) details the decision that we expect no user frustration with 2-3 emails per merge request more after this change. Additionally, there will be a dedicated blog post created for this change informing users.
Sample Email
Troubleshooting
You want to stop receiving Your pipeline has been fixed! notification (a.k.a. fixed pipeline notification)
This feature is currently enabled on gitlab.com and the notification setting for fixed emails is enabled by default.
Disable it for a particular project
If you'd like to disable the setting for a particular project only, please follow these steps:
- Visit a project
- Click the bell mark icon and click Custom.
- Check off the Fixed pipeline checkbox
Disable it for all of your projects
To disable the notification for all projects, please follow these steps:
- Click your user icon at right top and click Profile
- Click Edit Profile button at right top.
- Click Notifications >> Global notification level >> Custom
- Check off the Fixed pipeline checkbox
NOTE: When you change the notification level to Custom, you might accidentally enable the other notification checkbox. Please make sure that all of the notification checkboxes are correctly checked.