notify-addresses file format should support selecting notifications by arch

Bug #2081116 reported by Steve Langasek
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Ubuntu CD Images
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Bug Description

We have so many architectures now, often with diverse owners, that it's difficult to ensure the correct people are notified of image build failures: we either have to e.g. send architecture owners of ubuntu-server images email notifications for any build failures across 12+ architectures/subarchitectures, or leave them out and rely on ad-hoc forwarding of failure information.

Ideally we can select notifications by architecture, allowing architecture owners to identify patterns that will stand out more obviously to them.

I suggest an implementation of the notify-addresses file format that adds as a second field an 'architecture' field, consisting of a single whitespace-terminated string that supports globs. E.g. all existing entries can be mapped to 'edubuntu * $subscriber1 $subscriber2' and new entries of the form 'ubuntu-server riscv* $heinrich' can be added.

The production implementation of notify-addresses is in a private repository because the list of subscribers is not for public sharing, but access to this should not be required in order to develop an implementation in ubuntu-cdimage.

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in ubuntu-cdimage:
importance: Undecided → High
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