Hi Daniel, Thanks - that's a perfect starting point - much appreciated :-) !
I'll look at extending it to scan through the Gerrit patchset numbers and let you know how it goes. Thanks again and have a good weekend, James On 4 December 2015 at 14:56, Daniel Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone on IRC recently wanted to limit the number of queue items for a > job, so I wrote: > > https://github.com/daniel-beck/fixed-fifo-queue-plugin > > Could be close enough to what you need. > > Completely unsupported. > > On 04.12.2015, at 15:48, James Pascoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Everybody, > > > > I have been using Jenkins v1.617 to automatically run validation tests > on three hardware platforms. So far, Jenkins has been very well received > and I like it a lot. > > > > I have a series of 'builder' jobs which are triggered with the Gerrit > trigger plugin (v 2.13.0). I use the Git client plugin (v 1.17.0) to > checkout the code and then build it with a script. On successful > completion, the 'builder' jobs trigger 'runner' jobs which are tasked with > the mechanics of running the code on the hardware, processing the results > and posting them to Gerrit. > > > > Each test run takes about 30 minutes on the hardware. During this time, > it is very often the case that several newer patch-sets are pushed to > Gerrit for a particular commit. So, my question is, Is there any automated > way of removing builds from the build queue if a newer patch-set has been > triggered? > > > > Apologies if this has been asked before - I've noticed that a few people > have worked around this issue by increasing the number of build slaves - > however, I am limited by hardware availability and so don't have that > option. > > > > Many thanks for any help, > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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/09f504c2-2475-45f4-8499-83ada4b30416%40googlegroups.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/gmANl7O8h0E/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/601339F5-9BA9-4EB4-9581-054293E3FDD4%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/CAOZWurGX5QM_BvWrtq%2BwpZ9TE7U8T-1X0hcU_8fJnM_xJooyyA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
