[JENKINS-67963] Add option to save bandwidth and resources, which are wasted unnecessarily

[jira-importer]

At this moment, the plugin always sends full build artifacts (tons of media files and etc) over each build, which is an absolute overkill and waste of:

• resources & performance of Jenkins environment
• resources & performance of staging/production site 

so, whenever you have a chance, please implement this trivial things - before sending the artifact files, compare them to last sent file's md5 (or whatever) signature, and if content is not changed, don't resend. You can leave that 'option' by default turned off, but at least, give us way to enable that option.

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Originally reported by selnomeria, imported from: Add option to save bandwidth and resources, which are wasted unnecessarily

• status: Open
• priority: Minor
• resolution: Unresolved
• imported: 2022/01/10

[parvit]

Hi @ttodua, i've come across the bounty and i've worked on this the last couple of days, and i think it should fulfill the request. Please see my change at https://github.com/parvit/publish-over-ssh-plugin/tree/JENKINS-67963 and tell me if there is anything else necessary.

Regards.

[ttodua]

@parvit Hey parvit, nice to see you worked on it. As i doubt i will not be able to test out this within this week (our Jenkins is offline) and dont want to delay your bounty.

if you wish, I can release the bounty now onto you, but if I will find a relatively simple bug/issue later, will you be able to address that? of course, I dont mean adding other things, just that what you worked on.

also if you can, make a PR to this main repository, so Jenkins devs (@gmcdonald) can merge too and thus issue will be closed, which will allow you to request bounty.

[parvit]

sure

[parvit]

@ttodua Hi, is there any update? thanks.

[gmcdonald]

Thanks @parvit and @ttodua - I dont want to hold this up, but I do want to test everything before merging. I'll try and get this done tomorrow

[parvit]

@ttodua @gmcdonald Hi, is there anything i can help with to speed up the test? If you're busy i can do it for you and post a report.

[gmcdonald]

I downloaded the PR into a new branch and tested. It all seems to work fine. @parvit it would not hurt if you also want to provide some test results as confirmation and then I will merge.

One thing to note - the new feature checkbox is only available from the Admin - > Configure area of Jenkins and so it not configurable at job/user level. The original issue did not make it clear whether or not this is needed. In my opinion it is a 'nice to have' - perhaps extend to be able to override the Admin setting at job level, I will leave that to others to open a new Issue if they think it beneficial.

I am happy to merge, but if @parvit is able to provide a test also then I'd prefer that 2nd opinion.

[parvit]

sure, later i'll provide logs of the tests.

[parvit]

I've updated the PR with the test logs.

[gmcdonald]

PR merged, thank you.

[parvit]

@ttodua @gmcdonald Thank you.