Is there a queue manager for CruiseControl.NET?

Question

Let's say I have three projects:

  <project name="Foo" queue="Q1" queuePriority="1">...</project>

  <project name="Bar" queue="Q1" queuePriority="1">...</project>

  <project name="Lambda" queue="Q1" queuePriority="1">...</project>

and 'Lambda' is currently building. Two co-workers click Force build on both 'Foo' and 'Bar'. Both are added to the queue. Let's say 'Bar' is added first, then 'Foo'.

Is there a queue manager for CCnet to reorder the 'Q1' queue from the dashboard (or from a tray app)?

If not, is it theoretically possible to write a plugin for this functionality?

Answer 1

No, there exists no such application and it would require profound changes to the CC.net server in order to do it.

You can remove a forced build from the queue by stopping the project. (Remember then to restart it.) and you can control how forced buils are queued to some extent by configuring the duplicates attribute of a CC.net queue, for example "ApplyForceBuildsReAddTop"` will queue forced buils before regular ones. However even this does not allow you to control the order of forced builds.