Can we move the builds temporarily and see if it affects workflows over a few months and if not, then remove them?
Mike On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Tom Ritter <t...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I agree with ekr in general, but I would also be curious to discover > what failures we would experience in practice and how we could > overcome them. > > I think many of the issues experienced with local builds are > preventable by doing a TC-like build; just build in a docker container > (for Linux/Mac) and auto-build any toolchains needed. (Which would be > part of bisect in the cloud automatically.) I've been doing this > locally lately and it is not a friendly process right now though. > > Of course on Windows it's an entirely different story. But one more > reason to pursue clang-cl builds on Linux ;) > > -tom > > > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:53 PM, Randell Jesup <rjesup.n...@jesup.org> > wrote: > >>On 5/11/18 7:06 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > >>> Artifact retention and expiration boils down to a > >>> trade-off between the cost of storage and the convenience of accessing > >>> something immediately (as opposed to waiting several dozen minutes to > >>> populate the cache). > >> > >>Just to be clear, when doing a bisect, one _can_ just deal with local > >>builds. But the point is that then it takes tens of minutes per build as > >>you point out. So a bisect task that might otherwise take 10-15 minutes > >>total (1 minute per downloaded build) ends up taking hours... > > > > Also (as others have pointed out) going too far back (often not that > > far) may run you into tool differences that break re-building old revs. > > Hopefully you don't get variable behavior, just a failure-to-build at > > some point. I'm not sure how much Rust has made this worse. > > > > -- > > Randell Jesup, Mozilla Corp > > remove "news" for personal email > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
