Cherry-pick #18317 to 7.8: [CI] cancel old builds #18453
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Backports the following commits to 7.8:
Original message:
What does this PR do?
Enable cancel old builds. If enabled then the GitHub PR comments will notify the build has been aborted (there is an open issue to disable the notifications for this particular case)
Why is it important?
Avoid wasting build cycles for old commits
How to test this PR locally
We can comment
Jenkins run the tests please
a few times to validate it works as expectedBuild number 3 was caused with the comment: #18317 (comment) and number 4 with the comment: #18317 (comment)
Use cases
Sequential builds mean slow feedback while concurrent builds mean faster feedback but as a downside it means more resources, aka money. So this will help to align the quick feedback with less resources.
On the other hand, we will be working on the GitHub PR comments to avoid any kind of feedback if the build got aborted.
Questions
They run as a specific post-cleanup stage:
beats/Jenkinsfile
Lines 384 to 388 in 8f16020
Tasks
ABORTED
andUNSTABLE
. NOTE: we are working on levelling the build status report with something like:Expand to view screenshots