When I press "n builds omitted" I get back to the first tab of a jobset.
This is extremely counter-intuitive, instead this notice should link to
the currently opened tab.
This is a good way to make Hydra hang. (E.g. we had a deletion of
nixos:gcc-7 running for > 12 hours and blocking UPDATE statements from
hydra-queue-runner.) Generally it's better to just disable/hide an old
jobset anyway.
Frequently users want Hydra access just to restart jobs. However,
prior to this commit the only way to grant that access was by giving
them full Admin access which isn't necessarily what we want to do.
By having a restart-jobs role, we can grant this privilege to users
who are known to the community and want to help, but aren't long-time
members.
I haven't tested this commit, but it looks good to me...
* The "Jobset" page now shows when evaluations are in progress (rather
than just pending).
* Restored the ability to do a single evaluation from the command line
by doing "hydra-evaluator <project> <jobset>".
* Fix some consistency issues between jobset status in PostgreSQL and
in hydra-evaluator. In particular, "lastCheckedTime" was never
updated internally.
Setting
xxx-jobset-repeats = patchelf:master:2
will cause Hydra to perform every build step in the specified jobset 2
additional times (i.e. 3 times in total). Non-determinism is not fatal
unless the derivation has the attribute "isDeterministic = true"; we
just note the lack of determinism in the Hydra database. This will
allow us to get stats about the (lack of) reproducibility of all of
Nixpkgs.
Builds can now specify the attribute "isDeterministic = true" to tell
Hydra to build with build-repeat > 0. If there is a mismatch between
rounds, the step / build fails with a suitable status.
Maybe this should be a meta attribute, but that makes it invisible to
hydra-queue-runner, and it seems reasonable to make a claim of
mandatory determinism part of the derivation (since e.g. enabling this
flag should trigger a rebuild).
We now kill active build steps when there are no more referring
builds. This is useful e.g. for preventing cancelled multi-hour TPC-H
benchmark runs from hogging build machines.
Dashboards can now be marked as publically visible in the user
preferences. The dashboard URL has changed from /user/<name>/dashboard
to /dashboard/<name> because /user/<name> requires being logged in as
<name> or as an admin.
This allows fully declarative project specifications. This is best
illustrated by example:
* I create a new project, setting the declarative spec file to
"spec.json" and the declarative input to a git repo pointing
at git://github.com/shlevy/declarative-hydra-example.git
* hydra creates a special ".jobsets" jobset alongside the project
* Just before evaluating the ".jobsets" jobset, hydra fetches
declarative-hydra-example.git, reads spec.json as a jobset spec,
and updates the jobset's configuration accordingly:
{
"enabled": 1,
"hidden": false,
"description": "Jobsets",
"nixexprinput": "src",
"nixexprpath": "default.nix",
"checkinterval": 300,
"schedulingshares": 100,
"enableemail": false,
"emailoverride": "",
"keepnr": 3,
"inputs": {
"src": { "type": "git", "value": "git://github.com/shlevy/declarative-hydra-example.git", "emailresponsible": false },
"nixpkgs": { "type": "git", "value": "git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git release-16.03", "emailresponsible": false }
}
}
* When the "jobsets" job of the ".jobsets" jobset completes, hydra
reads its output as a JSON representation of a dictionary of
jobset specs and creates a jobset named "master" configured
accordingly (In this example, this is the same configuration as
.jobsets itself, except using release.nix instead of default.nix):
{
"enabled": 1,
"hidden": false,
"description": "js",
"nixexprinput": "src",
"nixexprpath": "release.nix",
"checkinterval": 300,
"schedulingshares": 100,
"enableemail": false,
"emailoverride": "",
"keepnr": 3,
"inputs": {
"src": { "type": "git", "value": "git://github.com/shlevy/declarative-hydra-example.git", "emailresponsible": false },
"nixpkgs": { "type": "git", "value": "git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git release-16.03", "emailresponsible": false }
}
}
Samuel Dionne-Riel
Maximilian Bosch
