On Jenkins it's possible to run several jobs in the same time but on different 
executor. That's the easiest way.

Regards
JB

On Feb 15, 2017, 10:15, at 10:15, "Ismaël Mejía" <ieme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>This question got lost in the discussion, but there is a small
>improvement
>that we can do:
>
>> Just to check, are we doing parallel builds?
>
>We are on jenkins, not in travis, there is an ongoing PR to fix this.
>
>What we can improve is to check if we can run some of the test suites
>in
>parallel to gain some extra time. For exemple most of the IOs and some
>runners don't execute tests in parallel.
>
>Ismael
>
>(slightly related), is there a way to get change the timeout of travis
>jobs). Because it is failing most of the time now because of this, and
>it
>is quite noisey to have so many false positives.
>
>
>
>
>On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Robert Bradshaw <
>rober...@google.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Dan Halperin
><dhalp...@google.com.invalid
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Kenneth Knowles
><k...@google.com.invalid
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Feb 10, 2017 07:36, "Dan Halperin"
><dhalp...@google.com.invalid>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Before we added checkstyle it was under a minute. Now it's over
>five?
>> > > That's awful IMO
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Checkstyle didn't cause all that, did it?
>> > >
>> >
>> > The "5 minutes" was going with Aviem's numbers after this change.
>But
>> yes,
>> > Checkstyle alone substantially (>+50%) the time from what it was
>> previously
>> > to adding it back to the default build.
>>
>>
>> Just to check, are we doing parallel builds?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Noting that findbugs takes quite a lot more time. Javadoc and jar
>are the
>> > > other two slow ones.
>> > >
>> > > RAT is fast. But it has very poor error messages, so we wouldn't
>want a
>> > new
>> > > contributor trying to figure out what is going on without our
>help.
>> > >
>> >
>> > There is a larger philosophical issue here: is there a point of
>Jenkins
>> > precommit testing? Why not just make `mvn install` run everything
>that
>> > Jenkins does? For that matter, why don't committers just push
>directly to
>> > master? Wouldn't that make everyone's life easier?
>> >
>> > I'd argue that's not true.
>> >
>> > 1. Developer productivity -- Jenkins should run many more checks
>than
>> > developers do. Especially time-, resource-, or setup- intensive
>tasks.
>> > 2. Automated enforcement -- Jenkins is better at running the right
>> commands
>> > than we are.
>> > 3. Lower the barrier to entry -- individual developers need not
>have a
>> > running Spark/Flink/Apex/Dataflow setup in order to contribute
>code.
>> > 4. Focus on the user -- someone checking out the code and using it
>for
>> the
>> > first time does not care whether the code style checks or has the
>right
>> > licenses -- that should have been enforced by the Beam team before
>> > committing.
>> >
>> > We should be *very* choosy about what we enforce on every developer
>every
>> > time they go to compile. I probably compile Beam 50x-100x a day.
>> Literally,
>> > the extra minutes you want to add here will cost me an hour daily.
>> >
>>
>> By the same token of having a different bar for the Jenkins presubmit
>vs.
>> what's run locally, I think it makes a lot of sense to run a
>different
>> command for iterative development than you run before creating a pull
>> request. E.g. during development I'll often run only one test rather
>than
>> the entire suite, but do run the entire suite occasionally (often
>before
>> commit, especially before pushing).
>>
>> The contributors guild should give a suggested command to run before
>> creating a PR, right in the docs of how to create a PR, which may be
>more
>> expensive than what you run during development. IMHO, this should be
>fairly
>> comprehensive (certainly tests and checkstyle, maybe javadoc and
>findbugs).
>> This should be the "default" command that the one-time-contributor
>should
>> know. For those compiling 50x or more a day, I think the burden of
>learning
>> a second (or more) cheaper commands is not high, and we could even
>put such
>> a thing in the docs (and hopefully a common maven convention like
>"mvn
>> test").
>>
>> I've listed the fraction of commits I think will break one of the
>following
>> > if that property is not tested:
>> >
>> > * compiling (100%)
>> > * tests (100%)
>> > * checkstyle (90%)
>> > * javadoc (30%)
>> > * findbugs (5%)
>> > * rat (1%)
>> >
>> > So you can see where I stand and why. I'm sorry that 1/20 PRs has
>Apache
>> > RAT catch a licensing issue or Findbugs catch a threading issue --
>you
>> can
>> > always get a larger set of the precommit checks using -Prelease,
>though
>> of
>> > course the integration tests and runnableonservice tests may catch
>more
>> > issues still. But I want my developer minutes back for the 95%+ of
>the
>> > rest.
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
>>

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