Cruise control.NET Integration queues??

Question

Hi , This is a doubt regarding the material published in the following link "http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Integratio+Queues"

which tells that "The default behaviour of CruiseControl.Net is that each project defined in the configuration is given its own integration thread, thereby allowing differently named projects to build concurrently.

Note however that a single project can never be building more than once at the same time. If you force a build on Project X while it is already integrating, that force build request is effectively blocked until the previous integration completes. So you can also think of this as each project having its own dedicated integration queue, where only the item at the head of the queue can be currently building, with at most one request pending."

But this is really contradicting in my case as when i force my build it opens my IDE and starts the integration and building which takes about 3 min approx. but when i force my build in between the execution on my webdash board i see that it again opens another IDE and starts the building which is not acceptable.According to the link shown above,it should queue and wait for the 1st IDE execution to complete and then go for the 2nd one.

Can u plz suggest any solution to this problem??

with kind regards Maddy

Answer 1

Maybe this is a problem (from the CCNet docs, even I didn't know about this setting):

duplicates: Specification of how to handle duplicate requests within a queue. Possible values are UseFirst, ApplyForceBuildsReplace and ApplyForceBuildsReAdd.

http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Queue+Configuration

Answer 2

We use Integration Queues for a pipe-lining purpose in-case your Projects have dependencies and u want to Build them in an order.

This is how it works:

  ...
  <!-- Put all related projects in same Q, here MyProjectQ-->
  <!-- Set queuePriority, based on who-is-dependent-on-whom --> 
  <project queue="MyProjectQ" queuePriority="1">
    <name>MyProject.Main</name>
  </project>
  <project queue="MyProjectQ" queuePriority="2">
    <name>MyProject.Installer.All</name>
  </project>
  ...

HTH

Answer 3

This is the ccnet.config file shown below cruisecontrol>

 <project name="VSAT" queue="Q1" queuePriority="1">
 <sourcecontrol type="filtered">
   <sourceControlProvider type="filesystem">
     <repositoryRoot>C:\MyProj</repositoryRoot>
     <autoGetSource>true</autoGetSource>
     <ignoreMissingRoot>false</ignoreMissingRoot>
   </sourceControlProvider>
 </sourcecontrol> 
 <triggers>
        <intervalTrigger name="continuous" seconds="240" buildCondition="IfModificationExists" />
 </triggers>
 <tasks>
   <nant> 
      <executable>C:\Nant-0.85\bin\NAnt.exe</executable>
  <buildFile>nant.build</buildFile>
   </nant>
 </tasks> 

 <!--<triggers>
   <intervalTrigger seconds="50" buildCondition="ForceBuild"/>
  </triggers>-->
  </project>
</cruisecontrol>

My nant.build file is invoking an IDE always when it sees any modification.The problem is it doesnt queue even though i specify that in my ccnet.config file???

Thanks Maddy