Re: [dtp-dev] Recommended builds?

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> For your case, are you looking for more frequent
builds (say, weekly) that
> have been generally smoke tested on the target platform?

Yes, that's pretty much it. In all honesty, we probably
do not literally need 
them "weekly" ... bi-weekly would probably
suffice. It is not so much to pick up 
some new function or bug fixes (for that we could
almost always wait for a milestone), 
but it's just to have some "steady progression"
towards our milestone. As we near it, 
we like to update to "the latest" of our
pre-req projects, just to make sure there's no 
odd surprises or bugs. 

The other considertation is retention ... I don't
know how long you leave up a nightly build, 
but if we switch to such a build, we (and our clients)
pretty much need it to stay around 
until the next milestone. That's why we (in WTP) have
weekly I-builds ... we feel fine about 
leaving all those around until out next milestone
is produced. (but we could not leave all of 
our "nightly" builds, there's just be too
many).

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David,

DTP has used a number of types of builds in the past (nightly, integration,
iteration, stable, etc.) and for DTP 1.5 we're trying to adjust according
to adopter needs. One thing we're aiming for is an "integration"
build as
soon as possible after platform milestones (see "Release Milestones"
in
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/DTP_1.5_Project_Plan for details).

For your case, are you looking for more frequent builds (say, weekly) that
have been generally smoke tested on the target platform? If so, then the
nightly builds aren't a bad place to start (we don't post builds if they
are seriously broken), though testing coverage varies depending upon
committer availability. We'd be happy to add a weekly integration build
(where "integration" means fairly well tested over a 24 period
with the
latest integration builds of our dependencies), if that would help your
project. Please let us know your thoughts.

Regards,
John Graham
Eclipse Data Tools Platform PMC Chair
Staff Software Engineer, Sybase, Inc.
http://dataplat.blogspot.com/



                    
                     
                     
          
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I thought I'd ask here, in case I'm missing something, but does DTP not
have weekly "Integration Builds" (toward your 1.5).

What's a consuming project to do? Just pick up the latest nightly?  Or,
are
they there somewhere, and just not on
http://www.eclipse.org/datatools/downloads.html

Thanks for any advice.


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