Re: [appveyor] Really slow turnover

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-12-19 09:24:15

On 2019-12-19 03:20, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:
> When I started out in computer programming some 40 years ago you could 
> submit a job, with some JCL, on an IBM mainframe computer via an input 
> card reader and you were lucky if you got back the result a day later. 
> How happy I was when I went to microcomputers and could get almost 
> instantaneous results from any programming attempt.
> 
> Fast forward to now, some 40 years later, and it seems like nothing 
> changes, despite the great advancement in computer technology and online 
> access in our current age. Attempting to run CI using Appveyor literally 
> has jobs queued pending a run for days and days. Surely there must be 
> something better in this day and age than this ridiculously slow 
> internet service. Is it 1979 again ?

I think, a great deal of Appveyor time is wasted due to it not 
cancelling queued jobs on subsequent commits, like Travis does. I don't 
think we can practically do anything about it, other than manually 
cancelling the unneeded jobs.