[Buildbot-devel] How to synchronise parallel builds for correct mail notification

[Dan Kegel]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:57 AM,  <mail654 at gmx.de> wrote:
> Unfortunately some buildslaves are much faster than others,
> so it can happen one build (on a fast slave) is finished, before
> previous build (on a slow slave) was finished.
> If this unfinished build will not compile (and the next build also),
> the commiter of source code changes for both builds were notified about the problem.
> But the second commiter did not cause this compile problem.

Dumb question: couldn't you just get rid of the slow slaves?

When I was using distcc a lot, I noticed that slow nodes were more trouble
than they were worth.  Maybe it's similar with buildbot.