Feature request: sleep between concurrent groups

[nwsparks]

The feature request

A flag to sleep for X seconds between concurrent groups or between pr's would be very helpful to prevent build storms.

For example if concurrency was 5, you could set --second-between-executions 60 and it would process 5 repositories, wait 60 seconds, then process another 5 repositories.

Alternatively it could be done in between each PR but I suspect that is harder to accomplish. Controlling it via concurrency seems fine to me.

Implementation

• I would like to contribute this feature if it's a suitable addition to multi-gitter
• I have no intention of adding this feature myself.

[lindell]

Cloud you please add context on why you want to do it. And which platform you are using /GitHub/GitLab etc.

[nwsparks]

sure, the platform is github. i'm doing a simple change, updating .dockerignore, which is a fast operation. I'm doing it against quite a few repositories so without a pause between pull requests it will cause a build storm and clog up CI for quite awhile.

I settled for just adding a sleep at the end of the script and low concurrency which I guess is what most people could do in lieu of a flag to control it.

[lindell]

Seems like a valid usecase. But since it has a simple workaround I will not prioritize it. If anyone else wants to pick it up, feel free.

I think the easiest option would be to add X seconds before starting any new run (except the first batch).