Show why and who/what cancel a build on the UI | Feature Requests

Show why and who/what cancel a build on the UI

Takayuki Ito

There are three patterns canceling the build, the first is Auto-cancel redundant builds , and the second is API and the last is Service issue . If a build is canceled the UI should explain why and who/what canceled it.

CCI-I-1262

December 4, 2019

Adam Harvey

This has caused a lot of churn for our teams.
When CCI auto-cancels a redundant build, there's no UI indicator to suggest that is what happened. In many many of these cases, I get internal support tickets indicating "intermittent failure of my jobs" or "infrastructure must be failing". But when we trace it back, it's clear an additional commit was pushed to a branch that had a long running test, and buried in the test failure is a message like "the process was killed".
Some sort of little visual UI indicator would be MOST welcome to improve user understanding.