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Our gerrit/jenkins setup is fine in detecting change requests that would break the build. But when you try to (mis-)use it to modify a change request until it passes on all platforms (because you don't have direct access to one of the platforms, say), the situation is not that ideal. As I recently experienced when I tried to get <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/16880/> "Make content of OSL_ASSERT, DBG_ASSERT, etc. visiblie in non-debug builds" to build on Windows---and ultimately resorted to a local Windows build anyway, to speed things up.

I do understand that this may be issues in the design of the setup that are hard to overcome, but wanted to dump this food for thought anyway:

* Once two of the three platforms are known to compile a give change fine, it would be nice if one could requests builds of new versions of the change for only one specific platform (esp. when then newly made modifications are in platform-specific code, so should not affect the already-good platforms anyway). Could save time and reduce (real-world) waste.

* Sometimes, a build fails for spurious reasons midway through, and you need to start another build. But the only way to re-trigger a build is to rebase the change. (The downsides are: disrupts the history of the change's revisions; the rebased-upon master revision itself may be broken; and there just might not be a new master revision to rebase against yet at all) It would be nice if one could force rebuilds of already built change request vesions. (In my example, this happend at patch sets 6 -> 7.)

* In cases like in my example, where the change breaks platform-specific code in various places in the code base, it can be tedious and wasteful to find all those places incrementally, one place per new build. It would be nice if one could trigger builds that employ "make -k".

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