[Buildbot-devel] Prioritizing Builds

[Carl Dionne]

I have a similar need - and in my case, assigning the priority to the
builder itself would also work quite nicely.  
 
Is anyone aware of work done in this direction?
 
Regards,
 
Carl

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[mailto:buildbot-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Neil
Hemingway
Sent: June 27, 2008 11:37 AM
To: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Buildbot-devel] Prioritizing Builds


Hi there,

Would it be useful to anyone else if buildbot were to have a way of
prioritizing builds?

To put this into context, we have one builder per branch rather than a
builder per architecture.  We have only the one slave, so there can be
quite a bit of contention for it.  I would prefer to have release branch
builds take priority over trunk builds, which in turn take priority over
builds for other branches.  What would suit _me_ would be for a Builder
to be able to pass a priority when it creates a BuildRequest and for
BuildRequests to be held in a priority queue rather than a simple list.
I'm just a little concerned that (a) this might not play nicely with
BuildRequests being able to be merged, and (b) the rest of the world
would probably prefer something other than the Builder to be able to set
the priority.

What does the list think?

Regards,
Neil

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