[Rock-dev] Help needed: improve jenkins error reporting

[Alexander Duda]

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:54 +0100, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> On 01/12/2012 05:23 PM, Alexander Duda wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 15:21 +0100, Janosch Machowinski wrote:
> >> Might it perhaps allready help to given an
> >> retry option to autoproj. What I mean is
> >> in case of an checkout error try to check out
> >> multiple times...
> >> Greetings
> >>       Janosch
> >>
> >> P.S.: Yes I know, this is bad behavior as it generates even more load on the
> >> server etc.
> Not going to help:
> 
> - from my experience, when svn.pointclouds.org is down, it is really
>    down ... trying 10 times is not gonna make it better.
> - failed checkouts on gitorious happens very very rarely since there
>    is the HTTP fallback.
> - retrying when autobuild / autoproj has a bug is definitely not
>    gonna help.
> 
> > We could also use a proxy server which might be easier to set up than
> > modifying autoproj.
> What would the proxy server do ?

Caching all external data which are not hosted on gitorious.org
and only updates once a day if it fails it will keep the old data.

Alex

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