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RE: [cross-project-issues-dev] Europa Build Workshop - Best practices
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I know Kim's going to throw something at me, but has it
been considered to have one shared (bigger) release engineering team for all
Eclipse projects rather than each project doing their own builds? I know this
goes against the idea of having projects be independent, but are build
reliability, plug-in version numbering schemes, and build
terminology really something that different projects need to differentiate
themselves with?
I would imagine that Linux distros for example are going to
want to learn one way of building 'eclipse' and not 10 different ways to build
the different projects with their own little quirks. I would also imagine that
if I were starting a new project I'd like to concentrate on coding and not
trying to understand all the build rules and numbers and
tools.
<ducks/>
At the Europa build workshop
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Europa_Build_Workshop), one of the action
items that arose was the desire to share best practices and tools across
projects with respect to release engineering. We discovered that multiple
teams have written tools with similar functionality to incorporate into their
builds, such as comparing plugins and feature versions across releases, api
comparison tools and others . It makes sense to share these tools instead
of duplicating committer efforts. We also learned that teams that recompile our builds for
redistribution, for example, linux distrubutions, have suggestions on how to
make our builds easier to reproduce for their respective communities.
We heard from new eclipse projects who have had difficulties getting their
builds started and hope that these best practices will be able to help them out.
I invite you to add any recommended techniques or tools that you have
incorporated into your builds to the list on the wiki. http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Europa_Build_Workshop_Report#Eclipse_Build_Best_Practices
Kim