Re: Searching for: Fast windows buildfarm animal

Greetings,

* Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
> It's common that half the buildfarm has reported back before a single
> windows buildfarm animal reports. And if they report a failure one often
> has to wait for hours for the next run.

Yes, that's been rather annoying.

> It'd be awesome if somebody could set up a windows animal that runs
> frequently (i.e. checks for build needed every minute or five) and is
> fast enough to not take ages to finish a build.

Done.

'dory' was approved today which checks for new commits every 5 minutes
and, as an added bonus, builds with a somewhat more recent version of
Visual Studio (2015) and a recent Windows Server version (2016) as
compared to the other Windows systems. While it's still not quite as
fast as our faster buildfarm animals, it's at least able to report in
within 20-30 minutes or so, as compared to hours.

We'll probably continue to tweak the system a bit, but it's at least up
and running now for HEAD, REL_10 and REL9_6 (older branches don't work
easily with VS2015, as discussed elsewhere).

If anyone has any specific questions about it or suggestions, please
feel free to reach out.

Thanks!

Stephen