On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:00 AM Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:34 AM Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [ sigh; now I sent it unfinished ]
>>
>> On Jul 13, 2020, at 7:31 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 13, 2020, at 7:28 AM, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [sigh; sent unfinished]
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:19 AM Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Not sure who is keeping an eye on the buildbot config, but Infra has
>>> been looking at the buildmaster and found that we (svn) have about 14G of
>>> nightlies laying around since 2015 (!!)
>>>
>>
>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/subversion/nightlies/index.html
>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/subversion/nightlies/dist/
>>
>> It seems that we likely only need (say) one week's worth of nightlies
>> (each is about 50M). What is the appropriate number?
>>
>> Is there a buildbot config option that is missing, that is avoiding a
>> purge of these files? Or does something "behind the scenes" need to take
>> responsibility?
>>
>> I believe Infra is likely to start *enforcing* some duration and overall
>> disk usage constraints. This likely won't impact us, as long as we purge
>> old builds according to our desired retention. So I think the more
>> important concern for our community is the question of "how many nightlies
>> do we want to retain?" ... I suspect whatever answer will be fine, but
>> finding an accepted consensus would be helpful.
>>
>> I'll lead with this stake-in-the-ground:
>> ** retain one week of nightly builds
>>
>>
>> +1 a week seems reasonable
>>
>> Do we only make a new nightly if the /trunk HEAD has advanced since the
>> last one? If so, then are you suggesting we keep the last 7 nightlies?
>>
>>
>> Did you happen to check if we even have a current nightly? ISTR several
>> months ago C-Mike had a question about building the tarball so he could try
>> out the Python 3 bindings where someone pointed out we post nightlies and
>> he could use that ... but then it turned out that the process had not been
>> working for a few years.
>>
>> Maybe I mis-remember or maybe it was fixed. But it could be that none of
>> them have any value (they are all old) and we are not even making these
>> anymore.
>>
>
> So I was just looking at the *build date* ... but Mark is right: it's
> totally broken. It has been building the same thing for a loooooong time.
>
> Can anybody volunteer to pick this up, and correct it? Get it building
> HEAD rather than $oldcrap ?
>
> Then we still have the "how many to retain?" question. I do like Mark's
> idea of maybe defining it as "7 builds" rather than "7 nights".
>
>
Given that the job has not worked for a while, I would say we just disable
it. Delete all of the nightlies that exist currently and then if someone
wants to make the job work again we discuss how the quantity could be
better managed. Of course, I do not know how to do any of this so it is
just an opinion. If we are using too much space I would just delete all but
the last one which should at least keep our UI from breaking.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2020-07-13 15:59:57 CEST