How to get privileges on hydra to restart builds

[cdepillabout]

@zimbatm I ran into this the other day (and it is why I opened this thread). It looks like libreoffice is not building in Hydra on release-20.09, and I wonder if a restart will fix it:

https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1623393?filter=office&compare=1623258&full=

Here’s an example of a failing job:

https://hydra.nixos.org/build/129298672

In another thread, Jon was saying this appears to be a configuration error, so it is possible restarting it won’t do anything without fixing the underlying configuration error:

Why do some packages (LibreOffice, Thunderbird) compile locally?

There was a configuration error where some build jobs were getting mis-distributed, and causing the builds to be aborted. Someone with hydra restart privileges will have to restart those builds, or change the derivation so that it attempts the newer build.

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Normally I wouldn’t post about this, but given that libreoffice is a relatively popular package, I think it might look bad if NixOS gets a bunch of new users from the 20.09 release, but then they have to compile libreoffice and can’t get it from the cache.