437082 - mozilla-central builds happen too often

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 472930

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

With the slew of checkins into mozilla-central we are getting a ridiculous amount of builds happening. We don't want to go 6 or 8 hours without a new build, but we also shouldn't be building "periodic" (not on-change) builds when there are many checkins. Nick suggested triggering builds after 2 hours of idle time, which makes a lot of sense to me.

Open to other ideas as well.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Yes, that's what I thought it was doing... periodic should be "two hours of idle" not "every 2 hours"

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Agreed; an on-landing build should reset the 2-hour clock to 0.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I'm testing a patch to fix this.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I'm still working on this. The fix is a little more complicated than I first thought.

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I got distracted from this for awhile. I think I've got working code right now. I'm testing it on staging while I wait for one of the upstream Buildbot people to have a look.

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Attachment: idle scheduler

My latest patch is working fine on staging but won't make the cut for Buildbot 0.7.8, which is to be released next week. I plan to import 0.7.8 in short-order and then land this patch in our tree.

Comment 7

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

This got solved in a different way over in 472930