Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-14 Thread Thibaut
> Le 14 nov. 2023 à 18:06, Petr Štetiar a écrit : > > Thibaut [2023-11-14 14:25:50]: > >> I’m sorry, I must have missed the part where we advertised that master >> snapshots are a maintained 'release' suitable for use in a >> security-conscious context :) > > There is no difference

Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-14 Thread Petr Štetiar
Thibaut [2023-11-14 14:25:50]: > I’m sorry, I must have missed the part where we advertised that master > snapshots are a maintained 'release' suitable for use in a > security-conscious context :) There is no difference actually, it applies to all branches/releases, so it really doesn't matter

Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-14 Thread Thibaut
Hi, > Le 14 nov. 2023 à 13:25, Petr Štetiar a écrit : > > Thibaut [2023-11-14 10:24:28]: > > Hi, > >> I don’t follow, what do security fixes have to do with snapshot builds? > > OpenWrt builds and deliver package fixes continuosly from the snapshot builds. > >> I don’t expect users (that

Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-14 Thread Petr Štetiar
Thibaut [2023-11-14 10:24:28]: Hi, > I don’t follow, what do security fixes have to do with snapshot builds? OpenWrt builds and deliver package fixes continuosly from the snapshot builds. > I don’t expect users (that includes myself) to keep constantly looking at > the git history to find

Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-14 Thread Thibaut
> Le 14 nov. 2023 à 09:59, Petr Štetiar a écrit : > > Thibaut [2023-11-13 22:20:28]: > > Hi, > >> GitPoller accepts a single poll interval. What you’re suggesting would >> require separating each branch, i.e. returning to the previous situation. > > IIUC then you can have multiple

Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-14 Thread Petr Štetiar
Thibaut [2023-11-13 22:20:28]: Hi, > GitPoller accepts a single poll interval. What you’re suggesting would > require separating each branch, i.e. returning to the previous situation. IIUC then you can have multiple GitPoller instances, so wouldn't something along this lines work?

Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-13 Thread Robert Marko
On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 22:21, Thibaut wrote: > > > > > Le 13 nov. 2023 à 21:32, Petr Štetiar a écrit : > > > > Thibaut [2023-11-13 17:26:44]: > > > > Hi, > > > >> In any case, another way to tackle this problem would be to switch from > >> continuous builds that starve the build resources to

Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-13 Thread Thibaut
> Le 13 nov. 2023 à 21:32, Petr Štetiar a écrit : > > Thibaut [2023-11-13 17:26:44]: > > Hi, > >> In any case, another way to tackle this problem would be to switch from >> continuous builds that starve the build resources to periodic builds that >> don’t (e.g. once a week), > > other

Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-13 Thread Petr Štetiar
Thibaut [2023-11-13 17:26:44]: Hi, > In any case, another way to tackle this problem would be to switch from > continuous builds that starve the build resources to periodic builds that > don’t (e.g. once a week), other options: * add more build workers :-) * use different GitPoller polling

Re: Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-13 Thread Thibaut
Hi, > Le 13 nov. 2023 à 16:55, Hannu Nyman a écrit : > > Looks like the release branches might have a too strong priority in the > combined image buildbot, so that release branches get always built before the > development main/master. > > Recently there has been a steady flow of mostly

Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

2023-11-13 Thread Hannu Nyman
Looks like the release branches might have a too strong priority in the combined image buildbot, so that release branches get always built before the development main/master. Recently there has been a steady flow of mostly small/unessential fixes/improvements for 22.03 and 23.05, so buildbot