Re: is cfbot's apply aging intentional?

> On 2021.03.08. 01:30 Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 3:21 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > 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

> > > Can you tell me what is the intention at the moment? Is this a cfbot bug -- or just me being inadequately informed? ;)
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> > 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
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> Right, it currently tries to reassemble each branch every ~3 days. It
> actually has a target of doing it every 2 days but it can't reach that

Ah, I didn't realize the cycle could become 2-3 days. I assumed it to be much shorter.

> But ... hmm, there must be something else going wrong for Erik here.
> Vik's "Catalog version access" patches apply and compile and test fine

Yes, you're right, I made an (unrelated) trivial mistake.

I just wanted to make sure if that apply age of three days was intentional - I now understand it can happen.

Thank you,

Erik