For findbugs to cause a build to fail when high-priority issues exist, in the
advanced part of "Publish FindBugs analysis results" you should be able to
choose Priority Evaluation to be "Only priority high" and then put a threshold
of 0 in the red fail Total box.

However, when I do this and a single high-priority issue is found the build
fails due to an internal hudson error:

[INFO] [findbugs:findbugs

]
[INFO] No effort provided, using default effort.
[INFO] No threshold provided, using default threshold.
[INFO] Using FindBugs Version: 1.2.1
[INFO] No threshold provided, using default threshold.
[INFO] No threshold provided, using default threshold.
[INFO] No threshold provided, using default threshold.
[INFO] Using the xdoc format
[INFO] No effort provided, using default effort.
[INFO] No threshold provided, using default threshold.
[INFO] No threshold provided, using default threshold.
[INFO] Debugging is Off
[INFO] No bug include filter.
[INFO] No bug exclude filter.
[INFO] Printing Errors
[INFO] Printing Missing classes
[INFO] Printing Source Roots
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger
(org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
[FINDBUGS] Successfully parsed file ... of module
${moduleName}.${project.version} with 790 warnings.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] null
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
at $Proxy2.end(Unknown Source)
at hudson.maven.MavenBuildProxy2$Filter.end(MavenBuildProxy2.java:67)
at
hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$Builder.postModule(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:726)
at hudson.maven.MavenBuilder$Adapter.fireLeaveModule(MavenBuilder.java:304)
at hudson.maven.MavenBuilder$Adapter.postBuild(MavenBuilder.java:262)
at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutorInterceptor.execute(LifecycleExecutorInterceptor.java:68)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at hudson.maven.agent.Main.launch(Main.java:165)
at hudson.maven.MavenBuilder.call(MavenBuilder.java:159)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$Builder.call(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:689)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$Builder.call(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:633)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:104)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:250)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:417)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:269)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:123)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:676)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Remote call failed
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:556)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:158)
... 28 more
Caused by: java.lang.AssertionError
at hudson.model.Run.setResult(Run.java:291)
at
hudson.plugins.findbugs.util.AbstractResultAction.updateBuildHealth(AbstractResultAction.java:246)
at
hudson.plugins.findbugs.MavenFindBugsResultAction.update(MavenFindBugsResultAction.java:93)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.notifyModuleBuild(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:350)
at hudson.maven.MavenBuild$ProxyImpl2.end(MavenBuild.java:419)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor203.invoke(Unknown Source)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
at hudson.model.Executor$1.call(Executor.java:376)
at hudson.util.InterceptingProxy$1.invoke(InterceptingProxy.java:23)
at $Proxy14.end(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor343.invoke(Unknown Source)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
at
hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler$RPCRequest.perform(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:274)
at
hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler$RPCRequest.call(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:255)
at
hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler$RPCRequest.call(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:215)
... 9 more
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 5 minutes 8 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Nov 20 04:56:06 EST 2009 [INFO] Final Memory: 123M/995M
[INFO]