If set, a newly scheduled build waits for this many seconds before actually being built. This is useful for:

- Collapsing multiple CVS change notification e-mails into one (some CVS changelog e-mail generation scripts generate multiple e-mails in quick succession when a commit spans across directories).
- If your coding style is such that you commit one logical change in a few cvs/svn operations, then setting a longer quiet period would prevent Hudson from building it prematurely and reporting a failure.
- Throttling builds. If your Hudson installation is too busy with too many builds, setting a longer quiet period can reduce the number of builds.

If not explicitly set at project-level, the system-wide default value is used.

It's possible to use Project cascading feature for this property. Please review this document.