[platform-releng-dev] Heads up on "testing during Tycho build"

["David M Williams" <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This note is to be sure Platform committers
know that I've just changed the parent pom so that 
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
is now 
<skipTests>false</skipTests>
See bug
443174 [1]

This does not impact our production
build, at all, since on the "mvn clean verify" command line,
 we specify 
-DskipTests=true

BUT, if any of you have Gerrit builds,
with a basic "mvn clean verify" then your unit tests may be invoked
"right after the test bundles are built". 
Many desire this, and are "ready"
for it, but if you are not one of them, you may have to specify the property
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
in your own test bundle pom files 

If you are not sure, it is probably
fine to "try it and see" (as things are) but if you see failures
you didn't see before, 
I wanted to give some warning that this
change in behavior may be the cause. 

At the moment, it is planned to only
make this change in master, and leave 'maintenance', as it was, with <skipTests>true
but, I'm open to suggestions if enough
of you think it should be changed too. (If so, please comment in bug
443174 [1]). 

Thanks, 

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=443174