This is not a huge deal but I thought it worthy of reporting.

I just got a situation where I just checked in a large merge and I had to leave some conlicts in for someone else to solve. Pulse then built the project and the build failed, as expected. However the manner in which it failed is to my mind wrong.

What happened was that compilation failed which caused the command that launched my build script to fail. I would expect the build to stop there and the result by reported as a 'failure'. But what happened is that pulse carried on and tried to gather artifacts that didn't exist - the end state was therefore 'error' with a message about not finding artifacts.

One upshot of this type of behaviour is that people that are subscribed to builds with the condition 'failure and changed.by.me' don't get an email when they should (which is how everyone is set up here). Another upshot is that the message is misleading and is hiding the real problem.

As I said, not a huge deal at all, but my perfectionism wouldn't let me not report it :)