On 31 December 2016 at 20:23, Philip Prindeville <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote: > >> On Dec 31, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Yousong Zhou <yszhou4t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 31 December 2016 at 06:13, Philip Prindeville >> <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote: >>> >>> I noticed that in Openwrt a lot of the x86 subtargets (alix, geos, net5501) >>> had gone away (well, been combined into a generic “geode” image). >>> >>> -Philip >> >> I can only guess it's very likely for the purpose of saving buildbot >> resources. But I never played those subtargets myself and have no >> idea whether they still work (they should though) >> >> yousong > > Pruning useful subtargets to solve a buildbot resource shortage seems like > taking a sledgehammer to kill a fly. > > Why not instead just add a profile attribute like: > > BUILDBOT_BUILD_ME:=no > > Whether it’s still useful to *build* a subtarget is a different question that > whether it’s still useful (from a pedagogical perspective) to *keep* a > subtarget in the SCM… and these questions shouldn’t be conflated. > > -Philip
If this is going to be the road we travel down (I'm bikeshedding here) wouldn't a BUILDBOT_INTERVAL:=daily/3d/7d/14d make more sense? We have more then a few full on targets that for the most part are much less popular then say ar71xx. _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
