"H" is a drop in for any of the time slots and/or *, so it felt natural (for me) to try "H/5".
To explain that in a different way, I was attempting to say "poll every 5 minutes if nothing is polling, wait for that to finish otherwise". With that out there, if I just leave everything "*/5 * * * *", and wanted things to poll in isolation, couldn't I turn down the concurrent polling down to 1? IIUC - with the "H" option, jenkins would decide how to split things up and I could leave the concurrent polling unbounded (which is a better option methinks). I wonder if that would eventually prevent things from getting a chance to poll at all.... On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:09:39 PM UTC-4, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote: > > Thanks for an interesting use case. > > */5 is just a short hand for 0-60/5, so I guess the general case that > needs to be considered here is how to use hash in "(s-e)/d" construct. > > What's the good syntax here? H(s-e)/d? H(*)/d vs H/d? > > >
