Re: [platform-releng-dev] Heads up: org.eclipse.compare pom in needs upd

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It allows a "clean" build that
others can re-build  (or build against) without using scripts. (Such
as ... this week ... was at the root of the problem described in  http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-releng-dev/msg21413.html).


I'm suggesting that we consider making
that one of the criteria for a "successful" I-build ... While
Mickael has suggested "he can just wait for the next I-build"
... my concern would be what to do if it happens again, the next I-build
... say for a different bundle? How many weeks would we go before getting
a clean build that had the right commits "mapped" in the aggregator?


Plus, admit my bias that if people know
they might cause an I-build re-spin if it is not correct, then they will
pay more attention to it, install the releng tool, etc., otherwise, there's
a tendency to "not care" and let the build fix things up and
let the build find and report their errors instead of using care, and using
the tools. 

But ... I deliberately brought it up
for discussion ... so glad to hear disagreement! :) 




From:      
 John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
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release engineering list." <platform-releng-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,

Date:      
 07/04/2013 12:34 PM
Subject:    
   Re: [platform-releng-dev]
Heads up: org.eclipse.compare pom in        needs
       updating
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David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on 07/02/2013 02:51:44 PM:
> IMHO, for I-builds, we should expect/require that there be no POM
> Update errors and if there is, we should re-spin to fix them. (not
> sure we need to panic over it this week ... but ... in general, I
> think that should be the policy). 

Can you explain why a rebuild helps? Since POM files are fixed automatically
during the build, a rebuild with fixed POM files would produce exactly
the same output as the original build, right? I agree we need to fix POM
errors, but I'm not convinced they deserve a respin.

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