https://travis-ci.org/apache/flink/builds/549681530 This build request has been sitting at **HEAD of the queue** since I first saw it at PST 10:30am (not sure how long it's been there before 10:30am). It's PST 4:12pm now and it hasn't started yet.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 2:48 PM Bowen Li <bowenl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I've been experiencing the pain resulting from lack of stable build > capacity on Travis for Flink PRs [1]. Specifically, I noticed often that no > build in the queue is making any progress for hours, and suddenly 5 or 6 > builds kick off all together after the long pause. I'm at PST (UTC-08) time > zone, and I've seen pause can be as long as 6 hours from PST 9am to 3pm > (let alone the time needed to drain the queue afterwards). > > I think this has greatly impacted our productivity. I've experienced that > PRs submitted in the early morning of PST time zone won't finish their > build until late night of the same day. > > So my questions are: > > - Has anyone else experienced the same problem or have similar observation > on TravisCI? (I suspect it has things to do with time zone) > > - What pricing plan of TravisCI is Flink currently using? Is it the free > plan for open source projects? What are the guaranteed build capacity of > the current plan? > > - If the current pricing plan (either free or paid) can't provide stable > build capacity, can we upgrade to a higher priced plan with larger and more > stable build capacity? > > BTW, another factor that contribute to the productivity problem is that > our build is slow - we run full build for every PR and a successful full > build takes ~5h. We definitely have more options to solve it, for instance, > modularize the build graphs and reuse artifacts from the previous build. > But I think that can be a big effort which is much harder to accomplish in > a short period of time and may deserve its own separate discussion. > > [1] https://travis-ci.org/apache/flink/pull_requests > >
