Feature request - periodically echo a dot to keep the job alive

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Feature request - periodically echo a dot to keep the job alive

weitjong opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

I have a little problem in my project Travis CI build when using the xcpretty to filter the Xcode output. While compiling for glew.c for GLEW library, there could be no output to the Travis CI's log for more than 10 minutes. As the result Travis CI may erroneously think the CI job has stalled and killed the job. I find this formatter as I am searching for a solution to my problem. Basically I need a formatter which periodically (configurable) echos a dot or other character (configurable) to the Travis CI's log to keep the job alive. Could this be done? Thank you.

Santiago Lazzari · Answer 1 · Mon Nov 21 2016 23:35:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@weitjong Use travis_wait

Yao Wei Tjong · Answer 2 · Tue Nov 22 2016 00:01:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for replying. We have solved this issue by our own by echoing a dot in a separate Ruby thread. We have evaluated travis_wait at that time and found it to be not suitable for our need.