oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/omicron

Want Omicron buildomat job to track incremental build time

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Dominant language
Rust
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Forks
97
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2d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

From 1/18 dev sync meeting:

  • For developers, we care significantly about "rebuild time after modifying one file"
  • We'd like to track this over time to mitigate regressions
  • Highest priority targets would probably be nexus, possibly sled agent
  • We could add a (non-blocking) buildomat job, to effectively (after a full build) "touch one file, do a re-build, emit how long that took"

To complete this issue, we should have some way (via emitted artifact, or stored "timing" information somewhere) that gives this info for one or two high-priority crates within Omicron.

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Research direction

Start by locating the repository's existing Buildomat jobs and the build commands for nexus and sled agent. Define a non-blocking job that performs a full build, touches one file, rebuilds, and emits timing data as an artifact or stored record; done means timings are available over time for one or two priority crates.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
build-system, ci-cd, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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