383943 - unit test boxes should do repeating builds every so often if no checkins

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

It'd be nice if the unit test boxes did a build every few hours even if there are no checkins, since otherwise they fall off the Tinderbox waterfall page when nobody checks in for a while (like during the recent tree closure).

Comment 1

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

This is easy to add. What sort of interval should we use? Nine (9) hours seems like a reasonable amount of time to ensure they stay on the tinderbox.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

9 seems fine

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Yeah, tinderbox removes them after 12 hours of not reporting, so anything under that would work.

Comment 4

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

Attachment: 393943.diff

adding periodic scheduler set to 9 hours. Also removed unnecessary bm-xserve07 from the list of builders in both schedulers.

Comment 5

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Comment on attachment 285887 [details] [diff] [review]
393943.diff

Could possibly be improved in the future to only fire if we haven't built in the last 9 hours, i.e. reset the 9 hour timer whenever the bonsai build scheduler is run.
Not considered a priority currently.

Comment 6

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

cvs commit: Examining .
Checking in master.cfg;
/cvsroot/mozilla/tools/buildbot-configs/testing/unittest/master.cfg,v  <--  master.cfg
new revision: 1.7; previous revision: 1.6
done