[wtp-releng] Troubles and consequences

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(Sounds likes a good soap opera title?)


Once I finally started thinking maybe
something really was wrong with our builds as Carl had been trying to tell
me ... seeing the I build was taking over 12 hours! ... I looked, and there
was some "stuck" processes related to the signing of jars. I'm
not sure what the root cause of the problem was, but the long term solution
is to put more error checking and "unknown state" emergency exit
codes in our build scripts. 

In the mean time, I've turn off the
signing of jars ... only for our I builds and XSL Incubator builds. Once
we get closer to a milestone, I will turn it back on, but in the mean time,
it's causing too much work on the poor 'ol build machine. 

I have left signing "on" for
our 3.0.2 M builds ... since we are close to a release, we should be testing
the most accurate code possible. But, I suspect part of the root cause
mentioned above isn't the signing per se, but its signing from 3 different
threads (or more) all at the same time. So ... we'll try just one thread
for a while and keep our fingers crossed that helps. 

Just wanted to let every one know the
little I know!