Just an FYI but concurrent builds plugin supports what you want out of the box.
Brett Sent from my mobile so please forgive any auto correct errors Kind regards, Brett On 1 Nov 2013 15:18, "AndyB" <andy.bi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for pointers. I'll check both the core's concepts of resources and > their use in the locks/latches plugin. > > Thanks again, > Andy > > > > On Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:53:27 UTC, Ricardo Silva wrote: >> >> I've never used it myself, and maybe it uses the same concept Stephen >> mentioned (so it could be broken), but the Throttle Concurrent Build >> plugin [1] has a "Multi-Project Throttle Categories" which I think fits >> with what you want to do. >> >> Declare in the global configuration a licenses category and the maximum >> number, and tag all jobs that use a license with that category. (It just >> doesn't fit well with jobs that use multiple licenses of a single >> product.) >> >> [1] >> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Throttle+ >> Concurrent+Builds+Plugin >> >> >> On 10/31/2013 04:42 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: >> > There is a concept of a Resource within Jenkins and jobs can be marked >> as >> > using N of that number of the Resource instances, and you can declare >> how >> > many total instances of the resource exist. >> > >> > Jenkins will stall builds until they can get the required number of >> those >> > resources. >> > >> > The locks and latches plugin uses this with resources of size 1 to >> > implement locks... Beware there are bugs in the Resource model that to >> my >> > knowledge have never been fixed (these are mostly seen as "bugs in >> locks >> > and latches" but actually are issues in core) have a look at the issues >> in >> > the locks and latches plugin to see if they are things you can live >> with >> > before you start down that road though >> > >> >> > >> >> -- >> Ricardo >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
