[Buildbot-devel] retries on SVN step

[Justin Mason]

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Brian Warner writes:
> Are transient network failures that common? And how transient are they, i.e.
> how long should the slave wait before doing a retry to give the new VC
> command a fighting chance of not hitting the same problem as the earlier one?

Well, in our case, about 80% of our (30 or so) Buildbot failures reported
to the SpamAssassin dev mailing list in the past few months have been due
to transient network failures, at a WAG.  We use svn with an anonymous
"http" checkout; they may be less frequent with other transports.

- --j.
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