Re: [eclipse-dev] Gerrit verification builds will fail, if MANIFEST.MF v

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mickael for this work and for the explanation. Highly appreciated.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> @Mickael, could you give some details or the bug report in which this
>> feature was implemented?
>
>
> Sure.
> * Bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=522223
> * What it does: This is an extra Tycho mojo that runs as last step of the
> build of every artifact, and that checks the version of the newly built
> artifact and the versions of similar artifacts in baseline; and will fail if
> some typical versioning rules are broken.
> * Story: We've been using it for a couple of years in JBoss Tools, with a
> good success. Alex, who was wasting a lot of time checking, fixing versions
> and blaming the culprits (often myself ;) motivated me to try to put it in
> Platform too, hoping it could save him and others several hours monthly. As
> it was already in my TODO list, but far away, I gladly moved it to #1.
> * Challenges: Some additional things needed to be fixed on Tycho-side to
> make the comparison can work with Platform: mostly stuff related to
> signature files changing between same fully-qualified version of same bundle
> (which is actually a rule broken by Platform to have same fully-qualified
> version with different content, but this seems to be under control and not
> really avoidable).
> * Value: And now it's there and it seems to do its job well for Platform,
> contributors get notified by a -1 from Hudson when they need to update a
> version and we should already see less and less issues on the "official"
> build as those are caught very early and made very visible. Alex is happy, I
> hope some other contributors will be too.
> * Limitations and possible next steps: The mojo rules are very basic,
> they're not implemented using API Tools and cannot guarantee nor advise for
> Semantic Versioning. If we want to get deeper into this topic, it would
> require to have some mojos for API Tools (
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=399276 ), but this seems to be
> a relatively hard piece of work to implement, for a not-so-high value for
> Platform - it seems IMHO more valuable for some other projects in the
> ecosystem than for Platform, which already deals very well with versioning.
>
> Cheers,
>
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