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On 5/16/20 4:39 PM, melanie witt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We recently merged a change [1] that will run the
> build-openstack-releasenotes job with 'sphinx-build -j auto' to allow
> the build to run on multiple CPUs. With the recent releases of reno
> 3.1.0 and openstackdocstheme 2.1.2, both libraries advertise that they
> are parallel_read_safe and thus can support the '-j' option.
>
> This effort was inspired by the nova build-openstack-releasenotes job
> which typically takes 52m to > 1h to run. The job timeout is 1h, so we
> were occasionally seeing TIMED_OUT job failures.
>
> With parallel sphinx-build, the nova job run time is reduced down to
> about 15m (awesome!).


Wow, that is better than I was expecting. Great improvement!