Re: Killing obsolete Jenkins builds

On 11/19/2015 02:03 PM, Ashod Nakashian wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com
> <mailto:sbergman@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     By the way, one situation where it is debatable whether all the
>     triggered builds are useful is if you push a series of changes to
>     gerrit, and Jenkins does builds for each of the changes in the
>     series. For me at least, in such a situation it would suffice if
>     Jenkins just only did a build for the topmost change.
>
>
> Yes, good point. This could be helped by the plugin Samuel mentioned.
> But it'd only work when you know what you're doing and when you are a
> core developer with commit rights (I'd expect patches submitted by the
> community to pass builds/tests before getting reviewed in most cases).

I don't see how pushing a coherent sequence of changes to gerrit is any 
different for core and non-core developers.  It is just that instead of 
having a single, large commit you split it up into meaningful units 
(that can depend on previous units).