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[Francis Ginther <francis.ginther@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me clarify that 1.5 hour time increase. That only applies if you want
to run these new builds as 'advisory' or not impacting the final result of
the build. The reason for the long time in this case is that jenkins has to
run the 'must-pass' jobs first and then the 'advisory' builds serially. In
my proposal above, the "wily armhf (any real phone hw)" and "wily i386"
jobs would be advisory. I only proposed this as a solution to addressing
the currently broken tests without blocking unrelated MPs that would fail
if the tests were just turned on as 'must-pass'.

If all of these jobs are 'must-pass' then they can all be executed
concurrently and build times would be the same as they are today assuming
nothing else is building and nothing has to wait for resources.

Francis

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Stephen M. Webb <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 15-09-08 05:58 PM, Kevin Gunn wrote:
> > Whoa! 1.5 hrs longer.
> > Per MP that'd probably be too painful as wait times have been an issue
> in the past, especially for Mir (not sure what
> > we're down to, but i think it was ~30min at best).
> >
> > Wondering (wanting Cemil/Stephen to chime in) would it make sense to
> have all MP's landing on development-branch running
> > CI on
> > * vivid+overlay armhf (any real phone hw)
> > * wily amd64
> >
> > Then have promotions to release run on all the priority 1 configurations
> > * vivid+overlay armhf (any real phone hw)
> > * wily amd64
> > * wily armhf (any real phone hw)
> > * wily i386
> >
> > in order to avoid sinking so much time into every MP
>
> I'd really rather see everything thrown at the MP CI so failures just
> don't make it as far as the archive.  Promotion to
> release is not the time to start finding problems, that's the entire point
> of CI at the MP level.
>
> Why would the builds be slowed down so much?  Is it just that the hardware
> is slow or is there a long delay waiting for
> resources in general?
>
> --
> Stephen M. Webb  <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>



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Francis Ginther
Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering - Continuous Integration Team