Goma

Goma is a distributed compiler service for open-source projects such as Chromium and Android.

Electron has a deployment of a custom Goma Backend that we make available to all Electron Maintainers. See the Access section below for details on authentication. There is also a cache-only Goma endpoint that will be used by default if you do not have credentials. Requests to the cache-only Goma will not hit our cluster, but will read from our cache and should result in significantly faster build times.

Enabling Goma​

Currently the only supported way to use Goma is to use our Build Tools. Goma configuration is automatically included when you set up build-tools.

If you are a maintainer and have access to our cluster, please ensure that you run e init with --goma=cluster in order to configure build-tools to use the Goma cluster. If you have an existing config, you can just set "goma": "cluster" in your config file.

Building with Goma​

When you are using Goma you can run ninja with a substantially higher j value than would normally be supported by your machine.

Please do not set a value higher than 200 on Windows or Linux and 50 on macOS. We monitor Goma system usage, and users found to be abusing it with unreasonable concurrency will be de-activated.

ninja -C out/Testing electron -j 200

If you're using build-tools, appropriate -j values will automatically be used for you.

Monitoring Goma​

If you access http://localhost:8088 on your local machine you can monitor compile jobs as they flow through the goma system.

Access​

For security and cost reasons, access to Electron's Goma cluster is currently restricted to Electron Maintainers. If you want access please head to #access-requests in Slack and ping @goma-squad to ask for access. Please be aware that being a maintainer does not automatically grant access and access is determined on a case by case basis.

Uptime / Support​

We have automated monitoring of our Goma cluster and cache at https://status.notgoma.com

We do not provide support for usage of Goma and any issues raised asking for help / having issues will probably be closed without much reason, we do not have the capacity to handle that kind of support.