Killing obsolete Jenkins builds

[David Tardon]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 05:55:01PM -0500, Ashod Nakashian wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > > By the way, one situation where it is debatable whether all the triggered
> > > builds are useful is if you push a series of changes to gerrit, and
> > Jenkins
> > > does builds for each of the changes in the series. For me at least, in
> > such
> > > a situation it would suffice if Jenkins just only did a build for the
> > > topmost change.
> >
> > Evey commit should build.. bibisect will build each and every one of
> > them eventually
> >
> >
> But isn't that the bibisect build instance, which is unrelated to the
> gerrit builds?

You did not understand what Norbert was trying to say... Every commit
should _be buildable_. The bibisect builder pick the commits to build at
random, not only the last commit in a series (because there is no such
thing as a commit series in git).

D.