Re: Draft release notes complete

On May 10, 2012 5:24 PM, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:49:51PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 05/10/2012 01:29 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Bruce Momjian<bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > >>>
> > >>> The docs finally built 90 minutes after my commit, and the URL
above is
> > >>> now working. (Does it always take this long to update?)
> > >>
> > >> I believe the new implementation of that stuff is that the devel docs
> > >> are built whenever the buildfarm member guaibasaurus runs for HEAD,
> > >> which it seems to do on an hourly schedule. This is definitely not
as
> > >> fast-responding as Peter's former custom script, but I'm not sure if
> > >> it's worth thinking of another way.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I don't see any reason it can't run more frequently, though.
Currently a run
> > > takes 15 minutes or so. We could reduce that by making it skip some
steps,
> > > and get it down to about 10 minutes. It would be perfectly reasonable
to run
> > > every 5 minutes (it won't schedule concurrent runs - if the lock file
is
> > > held by another run it exits gracefully). Of course, that's up to
Magnus and
> > > Stefan.
> >
> > If we can make it do *just* the docs, we can certainly run it a bit
> > more often. But we don't want to make it run the full set of checks
> > more or less continously, since the machine is shared with a number of
> > other tasks...
> >
> > I don't think 5 minutes is anywhere near necessary even for the docs,
> > but there is a lot of room between 5 minutes and 4 hours, so we can
> > definitely shorten it.
>
> Do you want me to just setup a build on my machine like we did before;
> 5 minutes is no problem for me.
>
> I use the doc build to show patch submitters what their final work looks
> like, and anything more than a few minutes delay makes that useless.
>

Anything that runs off the main git repo would be useless there, since it
would never show up prior to commit.

If people want the main docs building more often that's not really a
problem other than time - we just need to decouple it from the buildfarm
and run a separate job for it. It's not rocket science..

/Magnus