The KDEPIM / Akonadi situation

[Christophe Giboudeaux]

On vendredi 12 juin 2020 23:54:19 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:

> They are however, terrible at reading emails from the CI system. To the
> point I suspect they have filters sending such mail to the trash so it is
> never seen.
> 
> Akonadi has been in a broken state for several days now on FreeBSD. They
> have received multiple notices of this to their mailing list, and yet no
> action has been taken.
> 

On samedi 13 juin 2020 09:29:36 CEST Volker Krause wrote:

> sigh, not this again please... Ben, you very well know I look after Jenkins
> issues at least once a day. Here's yesterday:
> (1) manually triggered a number of PIM builds that were stuck due to having
> ran in the wrong order, I'm sure the Jenkins log will confirm that if you
> don't believe me.

Now here's my question to sysadmins:

Failures caused by the testing system being unable to build things in order 
has *always* being present and doesn't only concerns the pim repositories.

What did you do to fix the repeated failures caused by systems you maintain?