Merge #589

589: Raise the bors timeout to four hours r=Susurrus
The timeout is, by default, one hour. `nix` builds take about that long,
sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, making builds flaky.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bors.toml b/bors.toml
index 359f8947..678de84d 100644
--- a/bors.toml
+++ b/bors.toml
@@ -1 +1,15 @@
+# Gate on Travis CI
 status = ["continuous-integration/travis-ci/push"]
+
+# Set bors's timeout to 4 hours
+#
+# bors's timeout should always be twice a long as the test suite takes.
+# This is to allow Travis to fast-fail a test; if one of the builders
+# immediately reports a failure, then bors will move on to the next batch,
+# leaving the slower builders to work through the already-doomed run and
+# the next one.
+#
+# At the time this was written, nix's test suite took about an hour to run.
+# The timeout was raised to four hours, instead of two, to give nix room
+# to grow and time for delays on Travis's end.
+timeout_sec = 14400