Re: Draft release notes complete

On 09/07/2012 06:50 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> On 09/07/2012 09:57 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> A complete run of this process takes less than 15 minutes. And as I have
>>> pointed out elsewhere that could be reduced substantially by skipping
>>> certain steps. It's as simple as changing the command line in the
>>> crontab
>>> entry.
>> Is it possible to run it only when the *docs* have changed, and not
>> when it's just a code-commit? meaning, is the detection smart enough
>> for that?
>>
>>
> 
> 
> There is a filter mechanism used in detecting is a run is needed, and in
> modern versions of the client (Release 4.7, one version later than
> guaibasaurus is currently using) it lets you have both include and
> exclude filters. For example, you could have this config setting:
> 
>     trigger_include => qr(/doc/src/),
> 
> and it would then only match changed files in the docs tree.
> 
> It's a global mechanism, not per step. So it will run all the steps
> (other than those you have told it to skip) if it finds any files
> changed that match the filter conditions.
> 
> If you do that you would probably want to have two animals, one doing
> docs builds only and running frequently, one doing the dist stuff much
> less frequently.

hmm that might work, but it will only be a bandaid for what people
really seem to advocate for ie "commit triggered" docs builds?


Stefan