Feature request: cancel_previous_builds but only cancel queued builds

[vg-swift]

Use case

We push quite often, and with current options we have no builds at all because they get cancelled all the time or we have too many builds queued.

Idea

When auto-triggering builds on a branch, would like to keep the running builds, but replace any queued builds from that branch.

[mikhail-tokarev]

thanks for the request, this is interesting problem to solve. You can consider to increase number of parallel builds to decrease queue size or you can use scheduled builds to ensure you always have built last version from your branches.

[vg-swift]

We don't really need a build for every single commit, but we would still like to have recent builds throughout the day for QA to be able to check at anytime.
We already have plans to schedule builds for other stuff like running unit tests, but this won't completely solve our issue.

[vg-swift]

Another issue is that with Unity, if we cancel a build, the license won't be returned, so we're stuck with a lot of queued outdated builds

[mikhail-tokarev]

I see, this is a very good point

[shniqq]

I have the exact same use-case, so I second this request 🤝

[vg-swift]

Any update on this?

[mikhail-tokarev]

hey! first of all I want to apologize for the silence.

We have discussed this request internally and as result we are going to introduce some improvements how to better handle Unity licenses if build failed or was canceled. However, it's not exact the same as the original request to cancel only queued builds, but it should do a trick.

Unfortunately this month is already planned but we aim to release it in Q4. I will keep this ticket open to update you once we have it's ready.

Sorry again for the delay!

[vg-swift]

Sounds good! Although the possibility to auto-cancel queued builds would still be a nice bonus. That's the default behaviour on Unity Cloud Build, so we're just used to it.

[kcbuilder]

waiting for this ^_^

[shniqq]

Me too 👀 👍

[shniqq]

Any news on this?