On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Steve Fink <sf...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 04/15/2016 05:11 PM, Xidorn Quan wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 1:47 AM, Ryan VanderMeulen < >> rvandermeu...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >> I'm sure most of you have experienced the pain of long backlogs on Try >>> (Windows in particular). While we'd all love to have larger pools of test >>> machines (and our Ops people are actively working on improving that!), >>> one >>> often-overlooked thing people can do to help with the backlog Right Now >>> is >>> to cancel pending jobs on pushes they no longer need (i.e. newer push to >>> Try, broken patch, already pushed to inbound, etc). >>> >>> Treeherder makes it easy to do this - just hit the little circle with an >>> X >>> icon on the right hand side adjacent to the "XX% - Y in progress" text >>> along the top bar of the push. You will be prompted whether you really >>> want >>> to cancel all jobs on the push. Just hit OK and you're done. >>> >>> Killing off unnecessary jobs can have a significant impact on wait times >>> and backlog, so your consideration is greatly appreciated! >>> >>> Can we probably provide an additional banner on the top of the treeherder >> which shows all try pushes one has pushed in progress? I suppose it would >> make people easier to find and switch between their own try pushes, and >> also make it more convenient to cancel old pushes they no longer need >> without adding much annoyance. >> > Doesn't everyone keep a tab open to their try page? eg I have > https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&author=sf...@mozilla.com > open all the time. I used to use the try emails to find my previous pushes, > which was a PITA. But that page is really very nice, and provides an easy > way to cancel pushes too. > No, I don't. I open separate pages for each try push, and put them under in the subtree of the tab of their corresponding bug. A page showing all data of all my try pushes could be too long to be useful. I think a brief information of in-progress pushes which serves as a light warning would be the best. - Xidorn _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
