Whether Drone support configuring timeout value for build

Question

I setup a local drone server for our CI. And our project is a java project managed by maven. When run the mvn clean install command, maven will download all dependencies into ~/.m2 directory. The first time run this command will download a huge of data from maven remote repository which may take a very long time. In this case, I got below error on drone CI.

ERROR: terminal inactive for 15m0s, build cancelled

I understand that this message means there is no output on the console for 15 minutes. But it is a normal case in my build environment. I wander whether I can configure the 15m to be a larger value so I can build our project.

Answer 1

My previous answer is outdated. You can now change the default timeout for each individual repository from the repository settings screen. This setting is only available to system administrators.

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You can increase the terminal inactive timeout by passing DRONE_TIMEOUT=<duration> to each of your agents.

docker run -e DRONE_TIMEOUT=15m drone/drone:0.5 agent

The timeout value may be any valid Go duration string [1].

# 30 minute timeout
DRONE_TIMEOUT=30m

# 1 hour timeout
DRONE_TIMEOUT=1h

# 1 hour, 30 minute timeout
DRONE_TIMEOUT=1h30m

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration

Answer 2

Looking at the drone source code, it looks like they have environment variables DRONE_TIMEOUT and DRONE_TIMEOUT_INACTIVITY that you can use to configure the inactivity timeout. I tried putting it in my .drone.yml file and it didn't seem to do anything, so this may only be available at a higher level.

Here is the reference to the environment variable DRONE_TIMEOUT_INACTIVITY: https://github.com/drone/drone/blob/17e5eb50363f3fcdc0a0461162bee93041d600b7/drone/exec.go#L62

Here is the reference to the environment variable DRONE_TIMEOUT: https://github.com/drone/drone/blob/eee4fd1fd2556ac9e4115c746ce785c7364a6f12/drone/agent/agent.go#L95

Here is where the error is thrown: https://github.com/drone/drone/blob/5abb5de44aa11ea546db1d3846d603eacef7f0d9/agent/agent.go#L206