Re: is cfbot's apply aging intentional?

On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 03:00:46PM +0100, er(at)xs4all(dot)nl wrote:
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> I was looking at the 'Catalog version access' patch, by Vik Fearing. I saw a succesful build by the cfbot but I could not build one here. Only then did I notice that the last apply of the patches by cfbot was on 3769e11 which is the 3rd march, some 10 commits ago.
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> There have been no new patches; one of the patches does not apply anymore. But it's not reported on the cfbot page.
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> Is that the way it's supposed to be? I would have thought there was a regular schedule (hourly? 3-hourly? daily?) when all patches were taken for re-apply, and re-build, so that when a patch stops applying/building/whatever it can be seen on the cfbot page.
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> Maybe I'm just mistaken, and the cfbot is supposed to only rebuild when there is a new patch. That would be kind-of logical too, although I for one would prefer a more continuous building.
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> Can you tell me what is the intention at the moment? Is this a cfbot bug -- or just me being inadequately informed? ;)

The cfbot will periodically try to rebuild all open patches on the current (and
next) commitfest, as the main goal is to quickly spot patches that have rotten.
But it's running on free platforms so Thomas put some mechanisms to avoid
consuming too many resources. Looking at the source it won't try to rebuild
any patch more than once per hour, and will try to have all patch rebuilt every
2 days in a best effort, at least with default configuration. Maybe there's
some less aggressive setting on the deployed instance. So this patch will
probably be checked soon.