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  2. JENKINS-41060

post/changed should make it easy to restrict on the new/previous status

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      post/changed is called for both X->SUCCESS, or SUCCESS->X.
      X being typically failure or unstable.

      As a user, I would like to have a very straightforward way to express that I'm only interested in the X->SUCCESS direction, because actually the SUCCESS->X is already covered by post/unstable or post/failure blocks.

      My use case is the following: I want to send an email for failures, unstable, and back to success. For the reason explained above, I don't want to send a notification when the status changes from success to something else, because then I would send two notifications instead for one actual event. And it would lower the signal/noise ratio.
      I think it could be fullfilled like:

      post {
          // we could also add previousState below, btw. But in that case it would 
          // force me to express all the possible previous statuses, which I don't 
          // care about here
          changed(newState: SUCCESS) {
              mail to: NOTIFICATION_TARGET, subject: "BACK TO SUCCESS! YAY!: .......
          }
          failure {
              mail to: NOTIFICATION_TARGET, subject: "FAILURE: .......
          }
          // ...
      }
      

      Thanks!

            abayer Andrew Bayer
            batmat Baptiste Mathus
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