Thanks John, that sounds like a good idea. I'll see what I can do by way of archiving artifacts. So far, I had been thinking of artifacts in term of pure build output (files, libraries, whatever), not as metadata.
On 23 Feb., 23:56, John Vacz <mailing.list.collect...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 23.02.2012 08:36, Sason wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > I'd like to set up two dependent build projects for the same software > > product as follows: > > - have a "quick" build run every time a developer commits changes, > > i.e. using the SCM polling trigger. This will only be an incremental > > build, followed by unit tests. > > - run a scheduled full "nightly" build using the full test suite, > > setup creation etc. once a day using the same SCM revision number as > > the last successful/stable "quick" build (if there is one, and if that > > revision number has increased since last time the "nightly" build > > ran). > > > I wonder how this could be archived? My current understanding is that > > it's hard to mix these two concepts in Jenkins. I know about the > > Parameterized Trigger plugin which covers the "use the same SCM > > revision number" requirement, but not the requirement of running only > > once a day. > > > Thanks! > > I think you can use copy artifacts plugin. The quick build job write its > revision number in a file, which is archived as artifact. The nightly > job just copy the archived file from the latest stable build of the > quick job, and begin to build the same revision number. The nightly job > may have some logic to check whether the latest stable revision number > has been built (again, this can be done by archiving artifact and copy > artifacts plugin). Or this logic can be isolated in an intermediate job > that checkes the stable revision number of the quick job and trigger the > nightly build if necessary.