Archive for June, 2007
Do you enloy reasing?
Welcome to the new blog. With this blog, I hope to shed some light on what release engineering is all about, and encourage others to blog about the processes, tools, and best practices in this oft misunderstood discipline. Stay tuned.
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And Now For Something Completely Different…
Much like Ian’s post the other day, I’ve always wanted to blog that line. Anyway, it’s been brought to my attention that of late I’ve been apparently posting less-than-positive things about Eclipse, so to balance that out, here’s my top three cool UI features in Eclipse 3.3, in order from oldest to newest:
#3: Use PDE [...]
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Thirteenth Step
Ye gods. As of last week, my little release engineering world is responsible for a total of 13 builds, with two more on the way. Time to crank up a little APC and have a quick look back…
1Q2004: pre-PDE build system migrated to PDE thanks to Marcelo Paternostro.
2Q2004: EMF 2.0 released, using Eclipse 3.0 releng.basebuilder. [...]
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That Ol’ PDE Black Magic
… or more reasons why features still suck.
In the past 24hrs, I’ve encountered two feature-related PDE issues, which I think warrant discussion as they are, to the uninitiated, seemingly black magic. The first of these was discovered and fixed last night while watching The Dresden Files in ten-minute chunks while waiting for builds to complete, [...]
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Request For Comment: Will anyone miss the EMF Standalone Zip?
With the advent of jarred plugins, improvements to Update Manager, and
all the new smaller EMF 2.3 features (including 7 core “runtime” ones in
Europa’s Enabling Features category — see bugs 106804 and 189295), the
EMF team is evaluating if the Standalone Zip introduced in EMF 2.1 is
still meaningful and useful to consuming teams, projects, and products.
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