Daniel Beck commented on Improvement JENKINS-21099

these are only estimates for the build duration and at no place - AFAIK - is specified that this only applies only to successful (and unstable) builds and not to failed builds. It's just the time until the current build will finish

The only place I could find was Executor#isLikelyStuck() which seems to have the implied requirement that the estimated time uses successful builds (or rather builds with somewhat homogeneous durations), otherwise this feature wouldn't make a lot of sense. Jenkins telling me my build is "likely stuck" because I fixed it so it doesn't fail anymore isn't helpful.


Are there situations the new estimates are actually more helpful to users? I understand that the estimates are in some ways 'more accurate' as they don't exclude so many builds – but I don't see when they'd be 'more helpful' than the previous ones.

Maybe it's because we copy jobs whenever we're creating release branches, but I'm used to seeing the indeterminate progress indicator and it doesn't bother me. Estimates that are deliberately far off any actual build durations OTOH I have no need for.

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