Live from Europa Build Workshop
I’m in Portland this week attending the Europa Build Workshop, organized by Ward, Bjorn and Anne. So far it’s very interesting, as there are many bright minds here offering great ideas and solutions.
We started the day with a great breakfast and an introduction to get to know everyone, then we moved onto the Lightning Restrospectives. We then spread out and had break-out meetings, and ended the day with a game of small-scale golf and a few drinks at a pub.
Besides meeting everyone, the highlight of the day (for me) was hearing the great insight from the Linux Distros guys. These folks have been doing “simultaneous releases” of hundreds of disconnected OSS projects for years, and they’ve brought lots of experience to the table. They also shared the pain they experience when trying to build Eclipse and other Eclipse projects straight from source, and from there stemmed a discussion on Build Best Practices. It’s on the Wiki, so feel free to comment!
Posted September 13th, 2006 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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Ryan Lowe Says:
September 14th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Fantastic idea to have this workshop. Maybe this could turn into some build recommendations in Eclipse’s documentation for people that roll their own Eclipse plugin build systems to produce deployable packages.
Denis Roy Says:
September 15th, 2006 at 11:35 am
Documentation was a hot topic at the workshop. Notably, incentives were considered to entice projects to update stale docs.