Stop using the cron scheduler and use a wrapper job to kick off your builds, and have the wrapper job determine if the job needs to be run or not. You should be able to just grab the json/python/xml from the lastSuccessfulBuild and do some simple date math - a shell script would suffice.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Daniel Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > Without relying on plugins, I'd make sure there's a longer quiet period > for the job so you can cleanly cancel the build while still in the queue. > > Other than that, there's an extension point -- Queue.QueueDecisionHandler > -- that plugins can implement to deny queueing of a build. It should be > fairly easy to implement a plugin that can optionally prevent build > scheduling if a build was started within the last x hours or so. As far as > existing plugins, I only know of Skip Next Build Plugin, which is part of > the commercial Jenkins Enterprise by Cloudbees. > > On 06.01.2015, at 22:38, Mark Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: > > > All my jobs run on a schedule, typically once per day. > > > > Sometimes a bug is found and we initiate an immediate build at some > point during the day. I'm interested in cancelling the next timer based > build when the user has initiated a build within a certain time period. > This saves some compute resources by avoiding running the job twice in a > day. > > > > What is the cleanest way to do this? Ideally, I want Jenkins to not > schedule the next build. Once the build starts, aborting it based on > checking previous build start time does not seem pretty. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/44f05d86-00b2-4ef2-9e46-9bce317c6e81%40googlegroups.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/D4EE56B0-1745-473E-B947-016C794E484F%40beckweb.net > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Marc MacIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CA%2BWW-ybq5Ozz95SOma%3DVjkevs3xPjMGu0Mh8R_1CWMEW608MEQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
