Yes, we can limit branches using regex. if use @dependabot merge the branch is deleted
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 16:41, Maarten Mulders <mthmuld...@apache.org> wrote: > On 17/08/2020 09:55, Olivier Lamy wrote: > > Hi there > > we definitely need to reduce the matrix we have and cleanup branches ... > > so I reduced the matrix (no more 14,15) > > and only '3.3.x','3.6.x' > > > > Furthermore, we need to clean up unused branches. > > What about removing branches older than 1yo? > > Then older than 6months? > > Nowadays there are a lot of branches created by Dependabot. > I think it's good to update dependencies more frequently than we > currently do. But we shouldn't be building all those branches on Jenkins > immediately, and without (human) review. There's a risk of unreviewed > code being ran on Jenkins. Also, as we can see from this situation, it > creates so many branches that are never cleaned up. > > If there would be a way to prevent those branches being built, that > would definitely save space in the build queue. All branches start with > dependabot/, but I haven't found a way yet to filter those out. > > Thanks, > > Maarten > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > From: Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org> > > Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 15:37 > > Subject: Re: Maven builds out of control > > To: <bui...@apache.org> > > > > > > Dear Maven developers, > > > > please fix or disable your CI builds ... other people need to use the > > servers as well and in particular those who need to test jobs as part of > > their job migration. > > > > @INFRA: Maybe confine all Maven Jobs to a single specific slave for the > > time being? That way, they only starve themselves. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- Richard > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Olivier Lamy http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
