There are several plugins which might be worth looking at. The “locks and latches” plugin has already been mentioned, but this is listed for possible deprecation (see https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Proposed+Plugin+Deprecation). You might want to look at the Exclusion plugin, which we use. Matthew
From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jan Seidel Sent: 28 June 2012 11:41 To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Is it possible to block a build job if another one is running which is not part of up- or downstream? Hi folks, I am trying to parallelize some of our builds to speed things up. This particular build is quite special as it also interacts with databases. Multiple write access on a database will wreck the content, so this must be avoided by all means. It takes us in worst cast out of business for 2 weeks and creates loads of work and stress. Don't ask me why the DB design is as it is, that's pretty complicated, insane, sooo wrong and not worth discussing in order to fix that issue and let the build jobs just do what they are meant to do. Have been there, didn't like it, went away! The initial build job is a dispatcher that decides which job to run. So far quite easy but it also checks for 2 conditions which requires to almost identical jobs asides of one of the repositories location. So the jobs access mostly the same ressources including the database which must not be simultaneously! So they are a kind of "siblings" The default is set that inhibits to spawn duplicate jobs but with this second condition is it changing a bit. The second condition requires to block a job if a duplicate or the sibling is running This brings me to a dumb situation. Either I find a way to: * refer to related AND non-related jobs which may block a build * block on top-level (the dispatcher). This works but scraps all my efforts to get jobs not sharing same ressources to run in parallel * do not block jobs and hope that the developers don't botch it and wreck a database *yuk* Do you know a solution to block a job if a clone or a sibling already is running? Cheers Jan
