On 30 August 2017 at 01:03, Javier Delgado <witokondo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Following this comment
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jenkinsci-dev>, I was planning
> on creating a new scm trait for excluding references according to a date
> threshold.
>
> The idea after the trait would be leaving out from an analysis branches
> considered deprecated or unmantained. This way, a new github organization
> or bitbucket team project wouldn't create jobs for the whole references
> sitting at the repository but just for the recent ones.
>
> With this, the implementation seems it could be easy as hell, define a
> class extending from SCMSourceTrait that would add a (pre)filter according
> the defined threshold value. Here comes my question and request for help:
>
> * Does anyone feel this would be an invaluable feature or doable in other
> way?
>

I know there are users who would buy you beers if you implemented it for
them.

There are other users who couldn't care less, which is why this will need
to be an extension plugin not part of the core plugins


>
> I cant seem to be able to look for a commit creation date. I can get the
> SHA1 for a branch tip via org.kohsuke.github.GHBranch$Commit and
>  com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.api.BitbucketBranch. From where
> could I extract the modification time of this commit?
>
> What seems true is that I cant apply a SCMSourceContext prefilter so this
> trait wont avoid trips to the Github API
>

Yep I think you will be hitting round-trips.

I am fine with adding supporting changes to the GitHub Branch Source plugin
to add lazy caches to the request object... my rule is

* Core plugin PRs that enable extension plugins are yes. Stuff that could
be an extension plugin should not go in core.

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