Bogdana Vereha

After enabling the MultiSourceJobQueue in production, we've had a serious backlog on GCE builds: - [incident link](https://manage.statuspage.io/pages/pnpcptp8xh9k/incidents/4qj8t3220jy8) - [incident-response discussions](https://travisci.slack.com/archives/C0254QM3Y/p1505731108000167) This happened even without any http-jobs going through and was...

Use JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS instead of _JAVA_OPTIONS

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In https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-cookbooks/pull/885 we introduced _JAVA_OPTIONS in an attempt to control JVM memory allocation. [Documentation](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-4971166) suggests that JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS is actually recommended for these cases. The difference is pretty neatly explained here:...

[Discussion] Use Dockerfiles to build Xenial images

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@soulshake came up with this idea a while ago and I thought it's worth discussing it, especially since we've just started work on Xenial - trying this out now would...

New warning in build logs: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/clang-5.0.0/bin

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I've noticed that there's a new warning that appears in recent build-logs (probably after https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-cookbooks/pull/890 was merged): `/home/travis/filter.rb:43: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/clang-5.0.0/bin in PATH, mode 040777` Example build:...

terraform-config uses the latest docker image for `tfw` (the bionic one) when creating the instance templates for the NATs in staging. NATs are not successfully coming up when using the...

Xenial builds seem to still be experiencing long boot times caused by SSH timeouts, even after the removal of sshguard (see https://github.com/travis-pro/team-blue/issues/811 for context). Looking through the console logs, it...