Thanks a lot guys. Looks like Script Trigger is just what I need. How do I get the time of last build? Is there a fancy way or should I use curl with $JOB_URL/api/xml?depth=1 to dig that up?
Thanks -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Beck Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 5:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Preventing a scheduled build if a user has manually started the job within 24 hours Good idea. With the Script Trigger plugin, you don't even need an additional job. https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/ScriptTrigger+Plugin On 06.01.2015, at 22:55, Marc MacIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-users/qHHD0krSuUA/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/8571E269-4229-4FF4-9657-C761D2CBB1FB%40beckweb.net. 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/DM2PR05MB717882B9F62A082C8CB1AC5B8590%40DM2PR05MB717.namprd05.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
