On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:55:21PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Kris Jurka wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > >> The settings are in hours, so this says that if we haven't seen a > >> HEAD build in 1 day or a stable branch build in 1 week, alert the > >> owner by email, and keep repeating the alert in each case every 2 days. > >> > > > > How does this know if there wasn't a build because nothing in CVS > > changed over that time period? Especially on the back branches it is > > normal to go weeks without a build. > > > > Kris Jurka > > > > Indeed. The short answer is it doesn't. But there is a buildfarm config > option to allow you to force a build every so often even if there hasn't > been a CVS change, and I'm thinking of providing an option for this to > be branch specific. The you would make this setting shorter than your > alarm period for any branch you had an alarm set for.
Another possibility is just having the client report "no CVS changes detected" to the server, as a form of a ping. -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
