Hi everyone,

As always, thank you for your expertise.

Today, just a a couple questions:

Q1.

On 11/4/2016 11:02 AM, Pierre Tardy wrote:
The workaround is to change the scheduler name so that it is forced re-created. Please feel free to dig in the code and submit a PR if this becomes too annoying.


OK, it's becoming annoying as we move from the newfound wonder of having a system that's not constantly bogging down to niggling issues like our builders not getting scheduled.

One problem specific to us (probably), is that we construct our set of schedulers from our builder specifications, rather than having some set of schedulers, and plugging builders into them. So it would be quite difficult to figure out which scheduler a build will use, then find all the other builders on that scheduler, disable those in master.cfg and reconfig so that the scheduler will be removed, then undo it all so the correct set of builders will be in the scheduler when its remade.

My actual question is where can I look for information on submitting a PR? A slight search didn't' turn up what I was looking for. I figure someone on the list will be able to point me in the right direction.

Q1.5 Assuming I have to add the reconfigAPI code myself, where in the current code is a decent class's implementation I can look at to get myself up to speed? And Do I need to add anything other than the API to the base scheduler class (like pointing a parent at it)?

Q2.

This is one about a preferred way to handle a situation that's currently happening.

Some of our test builds, when successful, take days to run. But if one fails, we want it rerun fairly soon. We currently schedule them hourly, but as these don't rely on revision, the queues can get pretty long.

What happens is that we'll have a successful run, which takes days, and results in a long queue. Then something will change, and the builds will fail within the first couple minutes. And continue failing. So everyone getting emails will get emails for failed builds every couple minutes for quite a while. In one example, there were something like 45 builds queued, and each was firing off failure emails every couple minutes.

Sure, we can cancel the queues, and then we get a failure every hour. But is there a better way to prevent this?

One idea is to have a scheduler that won't schedule if there's another build running, though I think it would be easier to not schedule if there's another build queued (just because I've already done that to make our schedulers always schedule for the latest revision, removing builds for old revisions).

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Neil Gilmore
grammatech.com
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