Thanks for pointers. I'll check both the core's concepts of resources and 
their use in the locks/latches plugin.

Thanks again,
Andy



On Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:53:27 UTC, Ricardo Silva wrote:
>
> I've never used it myself, and maybe it uses the same concept Stephen 
> mentioned (so it could be broken), but the Throttle Concurrent Build 
> plugin [1] has a "Multi-Project Throttle Categories" which I think fits 
> with what you want to do. 
>
> Declare in the global configuration a licenses category and the maximum 
> number, and tag all jobs that use a license with that category. (It just 
> doesn't fit well with jobs that use multiple licenses of a single 
> product.) 
>
> [1] 
>
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Throttle+Concurrent+Builds+Plugin 
>
>
> On 10/31/2013 04:42 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: 
> > There is a concept of a Resource within Jenkins and jobs can be marked 
> as 
> > using N of that number of the Resource instances, and you can declare 
> how 
> > many total instances of the resource exist. 
> > 
> > Jenkins will stall builds until they can get the required number of 
> those 
> > resources. 
> > 
> > The locks and latches plugin uses this with resources of size 1 to 
> > implement locks... Beware there are bugs in the Resource model that to 
> my 
> > knowledge have never been fixed (these are mostly seen as "bugs in locks 
> > and latches" but actually are issues in core) have a look at the issues 
> in 
> > the locks and latches plugin to see if they are things you can live with 
> > before you start down that road though 
> > 
>
> > 
>
> -- 
>    Ricardo 
>

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