KCI nightly build schedule

[Rik Mills]

As a result of discussion, the KCI nightly build schedule has been
modified to be just Mon-FrI @ 0:00hrs (midnight) UTC.

If this causes or raises any issues, please speak up.

Rik


On 13/11/16 20:46, Rik Mills wrote:
> Currently this it set to run at midnight UTC seven days per week.
> 
> On Sunday morning LP undergoes some scheduled maintenance, meaning for a
> period of 4 hrs or more the LP publisher does not run, so builds appear
> to fail with a time-out.
> 
> Coupled with the facts that some of our contributors in non European
> time zones find that the nightly at the weekend clashes with times when
> they may be able to work on packaging fixes, and that the traffic of
> upstream git commits by KDE dev is very much slower at the weekend, then
> it has been suggested that at least the build at 0:00 UTC Sat
> night/Sunday morning may be worth dropping. There is also a case for
> arguing that we just set the schedule as Mon-Fri and be done with it.
> 
> This would have the benefit that contributors with spare time at the
> weekend could get stuck into fixing things without the nightly build
> blocking or delaying builds triggered by their packaging changes.
> 
> Obviously the nightly could be manually started if it is clear no-one is
> doing much.
> 
> Opinions on the above gratefully received.
> 
> Rik
>