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[news.eclipse.technology.eilf] what to do when: oh, crap! i caused the bamboo build to fail

DONT PANIC!

the first good thing is that u realized this!
or did someone else have to tell u?

anyways: it is good practice to tell the others via mailing list that u are working on the problem and also to tell them how long it probably will take u.

sometimes we have >1 persons affecting a build. that personal needs to communicate with each other and determine who caused the problem. and than u need to work with high priority on the problem until it is solved.

in case u need to make large modification to the code where u expect the build to fail, send a notice of this on the mailing list as well. again, an estimate is greatly welcome :)

during a time the build fails other developers not involved in fixing the build should refrain from checking in code.
the reason for this, is that the longer it takes to fix the build on bamboo, the harder it is to detect the particular check-in causing the problem b/c of masking errors.


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Thomas Menzel (aka: tom)