[JENKINS-28873] Rename email field in gerrit trigger configuration for better understanding

Hi all

that took 3 days to recover this issue! When I filled in the fields of the gerrit trigger plugin configuration, I just put my email address into "E-mail" - I thought, this is just for some administrative stuff, when some severe error occurs.

Now, I entered a comment into a gerrit patch, but nothing happened. I did an ssh gerrit stream-event on the console, and all messages arrived as expected. Then, after looking for the 853rd time at the configuration, I saw the help text for this E-mail field: "The e-mail of the user in Gerrit. CommentAdded events from this user will be ignored by Jenkins."

I assume, this should prevent event-loops, but this is not clear from the field name. I'd rather propose something like

Ignore-Pattern

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Originally reported by sonnenburg, imported from: Rename email field in gerrit trigger configuration for better understanding

• assignee: rsandell
  
• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): gerrit-trigger-plugin
  
• label(s): configuration, plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 2025-12-06
  

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Hi all


that took 3 days to recover this issue!  When I filled in the fields of the gerrit trigger plugin configuration, I just put my email address into "E-mail" - I thought, this is just for some administrative stuff, when some severe error occurs.


Now, I entered a comment into a gerrit patch, but nothing happened.  I did an ssh gerrit stream-event on the console, and all messages arrived as expected.  Then, after looking for the 853rd time at the configuration, I saw the help text for this E-mail field: "The e-mail of the user in Gerrit. CommentAdded events from this user will be ignored by Jenkins."


I assume, this should prevent event-loops, but this is not clear from the field name.  I'd rather propose something like


Ignore-Pattern

• environment: Jenkins 1.617, Gerrit Trigger 2.14

Start in the gerrit trigger plugin configuration UI and find the field currently labeled "E-mail" with help text about ignoring CommentAdded events from a Gerrit user. Rename the field to make its event-loop prevention purpose clear, then verify that the configuration still identifies the user whose comments Jenkins ignores.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.