[Buildroot] Analysis of build results for 2014-04-19

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:41:34 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  I think there should be two changes to the autobuilders.
> 
> - Reduce the % yes. With the growing number of packages, the number of
> selected packages is also becoming unrealistically large.

True. Currently the KCONFIG_PROBABILITY is chosen between 1% and 35%.
Should I reduce that to 30% ? 25% ?

> - If webkit is selected, increase the timeout with an hour. I don't know
> how easy that is, though.

Not easy with the current horrible script, because the timeout is
chosen in a shell script that runs the Python script that actually
generates the configuration and runs the build.

So let's say that I'll reduce the KCONFIG_PROBABILITY on one side, and
increase the timeout for all builds by an hour on the other side. How
does that look?

>  It would of course be even better if the autobuilder would calculate the
> timeout based on historical information from build-time.log, but I guess
> that's a bit too ambitious :-)

Hmmm, sounds fun! But I'd prefer to keep the autobuilder logic smaller
in size than Buildroot itself, if possible :-)

Thomas
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