On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:57:37PM -0400, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 05/11/2012 05:32 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> But in the interest of actually being productive - what *is* the
>> >> usecase for needing a 5 minute turnaround time? I don't buy the "check
>> >> what a patch looks like", because that should be done *before* the
>> >> commit, not after - so it's best verified by a local docs build anyway
>> >> (which will also be faster).
>> >>
>> >> I'm sure we can put something in with a pretty quick turnaround again
>> >> without too much strain on the system, but it does, as I mentioned
>> >> before, require decoupling it from the buildfarm which means it's not
>> >> just tweaking a config file.
>> >
>> >
>> > If it's of any use to you I have made some adjustments to the buildfarm code
>> > which would let you do *just* the docs build (and dist make if you want). It
>> > would still pull from git, and only do anything if there's a (relevant)
>> > change. So using that to set up a machine that would run every few minutes
>> > might work. Of course, building the docs can itself be fairly compute
>> > intensive, so you still might not want to run every few minutes if that's a
>> > limiting factor.
>>
>> that would definitely be useful. Compute intensive is not really a
>> problem, we can easily shape the box on that (and I think we already
>> do).
>>
>> Do you have some details of what to do and how to do it to use that,
>> so Stefan can set it up for us ? ;)
>
> Where are we on building the development docs more frequently?
Still waiting for details on how it works to set that up on the
buildfarm client.
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