How to send an email from Jenkins only in a release?

Question

I was trying to resolve this issue, and searching forums etc. and trying for myself, without success.

We have a jenkins job and there we use the Release Plugin (with a standard configuration)

In the job then we have the "Perform Maven Release" in the left side to generate a version (tag, change poms, etc.) This work perfect.

We want to send an email to the team when the release has been done.

I tried the enviroment variable that the release plugin sets (IS_M2RELEASEBUILD by default) and combine with the email-ext plugin plugin where I can attach a groovy script (advanced=>trigger=>script trigger)

And I tried a lot of scripts to active the email, and none works, my last chance was:

def env = System.getenv()
env['IS_M2RELEASEBUILD'] == 'true'

but when I perform the release we have not the email sent (so this script evaluate the conditional to false or whatever)

Anyone has this setup in his Jenkins?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

You need to use "Editable Email Notification" as "Post-build Action" and paste

def env = build.getEnvironment();
String isRelease = env['IS_M2RELEASEBUILD'];
logger.println "IS_M2RELEASEBUILD="+isRelease;
if ( isRelease == null || isRelease.equals('false')) {
  logger.println "cancel=true;";
  cancel=true;
}

as Pre-send Script, fill in your E-Mail(s) in "Project Recipient List" and add an "Success"-Trigger. (precondition is you have not changed the default "Release envrionment variable" in "Maven release build")