Pending appveyor build requests are not canceled when a PR is updated

[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi,

When a PR is updated multiple times quickly, multiple build requests

are submitted to Travis-CI and Appveyor. In Travis-CI only the last

build request is processed and all the older pending build requests are

canceled. But in Appveyor all the build requests are processed

in sequence. Is it possible to cancel all the pending build requests

for a PR when a build request is submitted in Appveyor?

Thanks,

Yegappan

[Dominique Pellé]

Also, I experienced tests that were hanging in Appveyor and
Appveyor would time out after 1 hour. It's too much. It wastes
time. Appveyor tests normally take about 18 min. So a time out
of 30 min would give enough margin.

Regards
Dominique

[Christian Brabandt]

I have enabled Rolling builds for PRs, that should make sure, only the
latest commit is tested. I also lowered the build-timeout to 30
minutes. And finally I enabled parallel builds, however it is not clear
to me, if this is only active for msbuild projects, so it might not have
an effect.

Best,
Christian
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Der Student: "Ich weiß nur, daß es zu Tränen reizt!"
Der Professor: "Ihre Antwort auch!"

[Ken Takata]

Hi Christian,

2020/3/16 Mon 17:08:13 UTC+9 Christian Brabandt wrote:

On Sa, 14 Mär 2020, Dominique Pellé wrote:

> Yegappan Lakshmanan <yega...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When a PR is updated multiple times quickly, multiple build requests
> > are submitted to Travis-CI and Appveyor. In Travis-CI only the last
> > build request is processed and all the older pending build requests are
> > canceled. But in Appveyor all the build requests are processed
> > in sequence. Is it possible to cancel all the pending build requests
> > for a PR when a build request is submitted in Appveyor?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yegappan
>
> Also, I experienced tests that were hanging in Appveyor and
> Appveyor would time out after 1 hour.  It's too much. It wastes
> time. Appveyor tests normally take about 18 min. So a time out
> of 30 min would give enough margin.

I have enabled Rolling builds for PRs, that should make sure, only the
latest commit is tested. I also lowered the build-timeout  to 30
minutes. And finally I enabled parallel builds, however it is not clear
to me, if this is only active for msbuild projects, so it might not have
an effect.

Parallel builds may not work for the Free plan.

https://www.appveyor.com/docs/parallel-testing/#requirements

> but jobs will run in series as the Free plan allows 1 concurrent job per account.

One possible option is utilizing GitHub Actions. It supports parallel builds.

Regards,

Ken Takata

[Christian Brabandt]

On Mo, 16 Mär 2020, Ken Takata wrote:

> Parallel builds may not work for the Free plan.
>
> https://www.appveyor.com/docs/parallel-testing/#requirements
> > but jobs will run in series as the Free plan allows 1 concurrent job per
> account.
>
> One possible option is utilizing GitHub Actions. It supports parallel builds.

Ah okay, I missed that. It probably doesn't matter much, since we only
have 2 distinct configurations for appveyor.


Best,
Christian
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