<div dir="ltr">If this is a serious problem, and I can easily believe that it is, have we considered having a default behaviour of cancelling all unfinished Try jobs running for a given user when they push again? Based on how I've seen people use Try over the years, I suspect a significant majority of pushes are updated versions of previous pushes.<div><br></div><div>For cases where a developer needs to run multiple runs at once, we can add an override in the trychooser syntax. I think that's a corner case, and I don't think it would be a major burden vs. the cost/benefit for everyone else.</div><div><br></div><div>I think the treeherder path we wouldn't need to auto-cancel, but we would prompt when the user adds jobs from the web interface.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Mike</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Ryan VanderMeulen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rvandermeulen@mozilla.com" target="_blank">rvandermeulen@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I'm sure most of you have experienced the pain of long backlogs on Try (Windows in particular). While we'd all love to have larger pools of test machines (and our Ops people are actively working on improving that!), one often-overlooked thing people can do to help with the backlog Right Now is to cancel pending jobs on pushes they no longer need (i.e. newer push to Try, broken patch, already pushed to inbound, etc).<br><br>Treeherder makes it easy to do this - just hit the little circle with an X icon on the right hand side adjacent to the "XX<span><span><span title="Proportion of jobs that are complete">% - Y in progress" text along the top bar of the push. You will be prompted whether you really want to cancel all jobs on the push. Just hit OK and you're done.<br><br></span></span></span></div><span><span><span title="Proportion of jobs that are complete">Killing off unnecessary jobs can have a significant impact on wait times and backlog, so your consideration is greatly appreciated!<br><br></span></span></span></div><span><span><span title="Proportion of jobs that are complete">Thanks,<br></span></span></span></div><span><span><span title="Proportion of jobs that are complete">Ryan<br></span></span></span></div>
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