On 2018-04-20 19:55:26 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > Greetings, > > * Andres Freund (and...@anarazel.de) wrote: > > It's common that half the buildfarm has reported back before a single > > windows buildfarm animal reports. And if they report a failure one often > > has to wait for hours for the next run. > > Yes, that's been rather annoying. > > > It'd be awesome if somebody could set up a windows animal that runs > > frequently (i.e. checks for build needed every minute or five) and is > > fast enough to not take ages to finish a build. > > Done. > > 'dory' was approved today which checks for new commits every 5 minutes > and, as an added bonus, builds with a somewhat more recent version of > Visual Studio (2015) and a recent Windows Server version (2016) as > compared to the other Windows systems. While it's still not quite as > fast as our faster buildfarm animals, it's at least able to report in > within 20-30 minutes or so, as compared to hours. > > We'll probably continue to tweak the system a bit, but it's at least up > and running now for HEAD, REL_10 and REL9_6 (older branches don't work > easily with VS2015, as discussed elsewhere). > > If anyone has any specific questions about it or suggestions, please > feel free to reach out.
Thanks! Greetings, Andres Freund
