[JIRA] (JENKINS-59678) Add a time delay capability to the retry basic step

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Kyle Rotte created an issue   Jenkins / JENKINS-59678 Add a time delay capability to the retry basic step Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Kyle Rotte Components: workflow-basic-steps-plugin Created: 2019-10-05 20:29 Priority: Major Reporter: Kyle Rotte @dnusbaum suggested creating this ticket for an enhancement I am proposing to the retry basic step. The retry step is a great utility step, but adding the ability to add a time delay between retries would be great. It can be as basic as adding a fixed time delay as a property to the step or an extensible option that allows you to use different algorithms for the time delay (Fixed, incremental, exponential, random, random exponential. A pull request for the basic fixed implementation has already been created at https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-basic-steps-plugin/pull/97. This allows the user to do something like   retry(count: 3, useRetryDelay: true, delay: 40, units: "SECONDS"). If the more advanced implementation is desired, it has also been implemented (and can be added to the pull request. @basil suggested modeling the extensible solution of other existing APIs that do something like this and proposed looking at Tenacity. The algorithms currently implemented are fixed, random, incremental, exponential, random Exponential. This would allow the user to do something like:     retry(count: 3, useRetryDelay: true, delay: incremental(increment: 2, max: 10, min: 1, unit: 'SECONDS')) All of this while still remaining backwards compatible and supporting something as simple as:     retry(3)       Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v7.13.6#713006-sha1:cc4451f) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Issues" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-issues+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-issues/JIRA.202371.1570307356000.1634.1570307400118%40Atlassian.JIRA.