As an immediate solution, I will have to look at other options, I guess. To solve these, I will try to help. But are people interested in this project?
-Murali On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Brent Atkinson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Murali, > > I'm sorry that you're frustrated. > > I doubt I can address everything you're raising as I'm still a relative > newbie in the code base, but I do know that there are a number of cases > Continuum doesn't handle, at least without workarounds, in its current > state. One of them is dependencies between builds and I wonder if this > limitation is responsible for why the parallel builds work this way. > > To be perfectly honest, if you are looking for an immediate solution, > Continuum may not be the best choice for you. However, if you're interested > in helping to address the issues, I will do what I can to help. > > Brent > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:21 AM, murali mohan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Warning. This is a rant. > > > > -> Parallel builds in Continuum is an embarrassment. Reasons: > > > > 1. Different builds from the same project cannot be queued if one of > > them is already running. Why is this? It is not even the same build, > it > > is > > a separate buildsbut belonging to the same project. This is a block > > since > > we are forced to time the scheduling perfectly so that the second > build > > starts only after first build is done. Why?! Or we need to have > separate > > project groups. Then why do we need projects?! > > 2. Shell builds are not running in parallel in version 1.3.6 (Don't > know > > about other versions). Even after enabling parallel builds and queues > > and > > when maven builds run in parallel without any problem. > > > > It has become a very clever and unknown science now to run all the builds > > in parallel in continuum and to ensure that everything completes. > > > > -> There are thousand of builds and their history in our continuum > setup. I > > have set up purge configurations, but still the UI lists thousands and > > takes a long time to load. > > > > -> For both the above, I have sent emails to support. One is recent, so > > lets leave that, The deletion of builds - no help to complete it. Some > > vague suggestions which never worked when I tried. There is some XML RPC > > tool to delete these old builds. I did spend a couple of days to run it, > it > > doesn't! > > > > -> Yes, this is open source and we all should contribute. But I am > someone > > who has submitted patches before and willing to spend some time. But > there > > seems to be no people who are running this or being responsible. > > > > -> All in all, I have spent a lot of time on this software from the time > > when it had very minimal features. Sadly, I think it is a waste of time > now > > adjusting schedules and making it "somehow" run. > > > > -Murali. > > >
