[JIRA] [core] (JENKINS-17813) Jobs should have built in option to never clean workspace

Tue, 20 May 2014 11:16:32 -0700

Daniel Beck commented on Improvement JENKINS-17813

Can you point me to this "advanced project option

The section in a freestyle job's configuration where you can set a custom workspace is called 'Advanced Project Options' and hidden by default. Just meant that while it's included in Jenkins core, it's usually not something you should need to use (and brings you slightly nearer to unknown "here be dragons" territory).

If I could create a scheduled task that could trigger when changes were made to a source-code repository, I would consider that approach, but so far as I can tell this is not possible

You could use Jenkins just for triggering your batch script at the cost of an additional copy of the source code (unless you can configure it to do a sparse/non-recursive/... checkout, in which case it's cheaper). Do everything else as you would from a standalone script.

Also for reference sake, you should be aware that I've found it helpful to use Jenkins as a generic build farm management tool as well as a build automation tool. Including such configuration management operations on the dashboard provides a consistent location and toolset which I've found to be much easier than having several different tools which serve similar purposes all monitored and maintained separately.

Yeah, we've also gone into use-Jenkins-for-everything-happening-on-a-server mode. But the limitations (e.g. limited interactivity) clearly show.

For future reference, can you give me more details of where this 'jenkinsci-users' list is, or where the 'appropriate' venue for this discussion would be?

You can find the mailing lists here: http://jenkins-ci.org/content/mailing-lists (via the 'Connect' menu item).

If you use the "workspace" mostly to provide a remote read-only file browser, there might be an easy solution to provide that for arbitrary directories. Let me know.
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