[LLVMdev] Buildbots: Apology and Explanation

Kenneth Uildriks
Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:44:26 -0000

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Duncan Sands<baldrick at free.fr>
wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
>> ... Still, people would break the builds and let
>> things go for hours or days at a time.
>
> don't forget the time-zone effect.  I regularly get build
> failures in the morning, presumably because someone in the
> US committed just before going to bed.  I guess they are
> happily snoring away when the build-bots (and humans) start
> complaining!  So when hours go by without a fix, it might be
> because the committer is getting some beauty sleep (or is at
> work, and can't do anything from there).
>
> Ciao,
>
> Duncan.

At my old job, we were expected to stay after doing a commit at least
long enough for the buildbot to complain if the build was broken.  Of
course our buildbots took about 10 minutes after commit to finish a
build, so that wasn't much of a burden...