[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 215220] New: ews should send email notifications for failures

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215220

            Bug ID: 215220
           Summary: ews should send email notifications for failures
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Other
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Tools / Tests
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: aakash_jain at apple.com

EWS should send email notifications to patch author when any failure is detected on a patch by EWS.

We did a survey (https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2019-December/030980.html) regarding notifications by EWS. Survey results indicated that most of patch authors want a notification when their patch fails any EWS. In contrast, most of the people do not want any notification when they are cc'ed on the bug (when they are not the patch author).

Email notifications would help the patch author to know quickly when the failure happens on their patch, so that they don't have to keep checking Bugzilla for all the EWS queues to finish.

Commenting on Bugzilla wouldn't be appropriate since it would create email notification for all the people cc'ed on the bug, and as per the survey most people do not want any notification when they are cc'ed on the bug (and are not patch author).

Based on that, sending email notification to patch author seems like the most appropriate thing to do.

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