sPHENIX discussion of software

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hi folks,

jenkins has a hard time keeping up with the number of PRs which are 
submitted. No problem with that but we have to make sure that this does 
not become a bottleneck for our development. Here are a few tips to 
alleviate the load:

This is the biggest one: Every push into a PR triggers a fresh jenkins 
run. I have seen users pushing changes into their PR after every commit 
on their local repo many times within minutes: Please commit everything 
first and then do a single push

Make sure your code (or PR change) actually compiles.

Often PRs fail when compiled with clang, get a head start on this by 
making sure your PR compiles with clang:
https://wiki.sphenix.bnl.gov/index.php?title=Tools#clang

run cppcheck yourself (this is really dirt simple):
https://wiki.sphenix.bnl.gov/index.php?title=Tools#Jenkins_Command_line

There will always be oops'es and "I forgot this" but we all benefit if 
we keep the load on jenkins as low as possible

Thanks,
Chris

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Christopher H. Pinkenburg       ;    pinkenburg AT bnl.gov
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