Sounds very good Jason; thanks for the summary and execution of the plan.

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 3:56 PM Jason Gerlowski <gerlowsk...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> My original writeup here missed one important detail that Uwe recently
> clarified for me on the lucene lists. [1]. The constant presence of
> some Solr jobs in the Jenkins build-queue isn't accidental, it's by
> design(!)  We've historically triggered some jobs "hourly" instead of
> "nightly" in order to get the maximum number of test-runs /
> randomization-seeds out of our hardware.
>
> This doesn't eliminate the need for the deduplication I mentioned
> originally, though it would change a bit how we go about that, since
> it sounds like it still makes sense to run our tests (and only our
> tests) in as tight a loop as possible.  My updated suggestion would be
> to:
>
> 1. Switch the Solr-reference-guide jobs to be built "daily" instead of
> the current "hourly".
> 2. Split the 'Solr-Check' job into two jobs: a "daily" job running
> static analysis targets, and an "hourly" job running only the tests
> 3. (Optional) Split 'integrationTests' into their own job, since
> they're somewhat time consuming and don't use randomization and
> probably don't benefit much from being run "hourly"
>
> This would leave a single job responsible for testing that is
> triggered "hourly", with all other jobs being run "daily".  Any
> objections to this revised plan?  I'll assume lazy-consensus and make
> the changes sometime next week.
>
> Best,
>
> Jason
>
> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/t2ot2l2nyyrjv8q676ok757b7hohqsy5
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 12:40 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > +1. cleanups always good. Also, do we need to keep the smoke test 9.7
> running if we don’t think there will be a 9.7.1 release?
> >
> > Jan Høydahl
> >
> > > On 15 Oct 2024, at 14:32, David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > +1 Sure; seems like a simple solution.
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 7:27 AM Jason Gerlowski <
> gerlowsk...@gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> While cleaning up our Jenkins agents, I noticed that we trigger a lot
> > >> of long-running (> 1 hr) jobs on a nightly basis.  Each family of jobs
> > >> differs slightly in the gradle task it runs, but there's a lot of
> > >> overlap.  e.g. our 'Solr-Check', 'Solr-Smoketest', and
> > >> 'Solr-NightlyTests' builds all run our test suite.  Combine this with
> > >> the limited Jenkins hardware we have access to, and it's a recipe for
> > >> contention.
> > >>
> > >> Nightly jobs alone keep our Jenkins agents pegged for at least half
> > >> the day!  This makes us a bad "neighbor" on these boxes.  It also
> > >> prevents us from firing off ad-hoc jobs or doing anything more
> > >> inventive or rigorous (like multi-JVMs testing) etc.
> > >>
> > >> What do you all think of deduplicating the work done by our Jenkins
> > >> setup? I'm not attached to any particular breakdown, but one example
> > >> would be to explicitly run 'test' in the 'NightlyTests' job and then
> > >> exclude the task from running as a part of the 'Check' and 'Smoketest'
> > >> jobs.
> > >>
> > >> Best,
> > >>
> > >> Jason
> > >>
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