From: Alfredo Deza <adeza@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 17:56:23 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: mention the timeout on scripts
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mention the timeout on scripts

Signed-off-by: Alfredo Deza <adeza@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index da0d6cff..1a596645 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -100,6 +100,16 @@ will have the following settings:
 
 * Jenkins job ``display-name``: ``ceph-deploy: Pull Requests``
 
+
+Scripts
+-------
+Scripts that may hang should be using the ``timeout`` command::
+
+    timeout 600 ./bad-script.sh
+
+The above command will make the job expire after ten minutes (the argument is
+in seconds).
+
 Pull Request Jobs
 -----------------
 When configuring a new job that will build pull requests, you must also