Re: [Cruisecontrol-user] Continuous rebuilds after failed build

[Randy C. <RCo...@ke...>]

Jeffrey Fredrick wrote:
 > I believe this -- immediately rebuilding -- is by design because the 
cause
 > of failure might have been temporary (rebooting a db machine for 
instance).
 >

It would sure be nice if this was configurable.  We potentially have to 
wait through almost two full build cycles to see if a fix works or not.

 > Two things you might want to consider:
 >
 >   *  set the spamWhileBroken attribute to false on your email element --
 > that will prevent you from receiving multiple emails after a build fails.
 >

We've already done this.

 >   *  you can manually use the lastBuild flag on the command line to 
set the
 > time to your current time.  If you do that then CC won't rebuild 
until there
 > is a new modification.
 >

This would be difficult.  We launch cruisecontrol from /etc/init.d and 
just leave it running.

Thanks for your help,
Randy
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Randy Coulman
Senior Software Engineer
Key Technology, Inc.
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