The output from git --log can be filtered to a since date. If we use the last build date then we can check if there are entries. Maybe some other switches would help.
Am 21. Januar 2023 15:03:02 MEZ schrieb Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de>: >Hi Gavin, > >Am 21.01.23 um 13:33 schrieb Gavin McDonald: >> 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. > >Just to clarify: > >I think the logic should be: Look every day (night) if there was a code >change. If yes, do a build, otherwise skip. > >I don't want to trigger a build with every single commit... ;-) > >Regards, > > Matthias > >> 3. Clean up snapshots older than 1 month. >> >> Thoughts please >> >
