Hi Daniel, Thanks - that's a perfect starting point - much appreciated :-) !
I'll look at extending it to scan through the Gerrit patchset numbers and let you know how it goes. Thanks again and have a good weekend, James On 4 December 2015 at 14:56, Daniel Beck <m...@beckweb.net> wrote: > Someone on IRC recently wanted to limit the number of queue items for a > job, so I wrote: > > https://github.com/daniel-beck/fixed-fifo-queue-plugin > > Could be close enough to what you need. > > Completely unsupported. > > On 04.12.2015, at 15:48, James Pascoe <ja...@james-pascoe.com> wrote: > > > Hi Everybody, > > > > I have been using Jenkins v1.617 to automatically run validation tests > on three hardware platforms. So far, Jenkins has been very well received > and I like it a lot. > > > > I have a series of 'builder' jobs which are triggered with the Gerrit > trigger plugin (v 2.13.0). I use the Git client plugin (v 1.17.0) to > checkout the code and then build it with a script. On successful > completion, the 'builder' jobs trigger 'runner' jobs which are tasked with > the mechanics of running the code on the hardware, processing the results > and posting them to Gerrit. > > > > Each test run takes about 30 minutes on the hardware. During this time, > it is very often the case that several newer patch-sets are pushed to > Gerrit for a particular commit. So, my question is, Is there any automated > way of removing builds from the build queue if a newer patch-set has been > triggered? > > > > Apologies if this has been asked before - I've noticed that a few people > have worked around this issue by increasing the number of build slaves - > however, I am limited by hardware availability and so don't have that > option. > > > > Many thanks for any help, > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/09f504c2-2475-45f4-8499-83ada4b30416%40googlegroups.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-users/gmANl7O8h0E/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/601339F5-9BA9-4EB4-9581-054293E3FDD4%40beckweb.net > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAOZWurGX5QM_BvWrtq%2BwpZ9TE7U8T-1X0hcU_8fJnM_xJooyyA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
