On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:13:54 +0100 Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote:
> Hi Rory, > > Am 21.01.23 um 13:52 schrieb Rory O'Farrell: > > On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 13:33:38 +0100 > > Gavin McDonald <gmcdon...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> The nightly builds at https://ci2.apache.org/#/builders/58 are using up > >> much unnecessary > >> disk space on the nightlies.apache.org server. > >> > >> Currently Openoffice alone is using more than 1TB - all due to these > >> nightly builds. > >> Over 600GB are the linux64 snapshots and the rest are the linsnap* ones. > >> > >> Many many of these snapshots are identical to previous ones, but because > >> the date of the build is included then they are just repeated each day. > >> Even if no commits for weeks there is multi GB tars and debs being uploaded > >> each day. > >> > >> This seems a waste. > >> > >> Not only this, but no snapshots are being cleaned up, we have snapshots > >> dating back nearly a year just sitting there. > >> > >> Lets clean this up and be smarter going forwards. > >> > >> I would like to see these nightlies changed :- > >> > >> 1. Change to run weekly instead of daily. > >> 2. Instead of, or in addition to 1, build and upload by commit trigger. > >> 3. Clean up snapshots older than 1 month. > >> > >> Thoughts please > >> > > Agreed - the nightlies run well, as far as my use of them uses their > > features. A weekly build would be good, and no need to have extended > > availability of older builds further back than (say) four weeks - four/five > > weeks might be simpler to program than a month. > > A nightly build of trunk should run every day *if* there was a code > change. This is important for developers to see if something they > committed does break the build process. I had (silently) assumed this would happen. I thought it a detail in the overall picture of removing and re-ordering the nightlies. Rory > The other branches (AOO42X, AOO41X) only build a snapshot once a week. > > Four weeks are a good period to have archived if a regression occurs. > > @Gavin: We discussed at some point, if we can trigger nightlies only if > there was a commit (change in git hash) but we didn't know how to do it. > So I would prefer 2. instead of 1. and concur with 3. > > Regards, > > Matthias > > > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
