Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] On buildbot, the builder started a build of a 3-months old c

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 16:06:30 -0700
On 5/27/20 3:27 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On May 27, 2020, at 1:13 PM, Martin Mathieson via Wireshark-dev <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Looking at the last cppcheck build on master ( https://buildbot.wireshark.org/wireshark-master/builders/Clang%20Code%20Analysis/builds/5214/steps/cppcheck/logs/stdio), it was done on the weekend but using an old revision of master.
>>
>> Looking at build 5214 (dated 24th May), it tests revision (9f3a335f459de8ac4eb5521f2c7e1820e95e2dfe) which was from 2nd March.  Does something need to be done to make the next build move on?
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> That's not a cppcheck issue, it's an issue with the entire build - it's building an ancient commit, although it claims that there's only 1 commit pending.  
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> 	https://buildbot.wireshark.org/wireshark-master/builders/Clang%20Code%20Analysis/builds/5214
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> says 1) it's commit 9f3a335f459de8ac4eb5521f2c7e1820e95e2dfe, which is
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> 	commit 9f3a335f459de8ac4eb5521f2c7e1820e95e2dfe
> 	Author: Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx>
> 	Date:   Mon Mar 2 14:13:07 2020 +0100
> 
> 	    QUIC: Add ACK_FREQUENCY Frame Type
>     
> 	    From https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iyengar-quic-delayed-ack-00 and
> 	    https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Temporary-IANA-Registry#quic-frame-types
> 
> and 2) that it started on May 24.

The Clang Code Analysis builder had over 400 pending builds, dating back to March. It's supposed to merge them all into the latest revision at the start of each build, but that isn't happening for some reason. I cleared the queue via the web interface for now but this might require more intervention later.