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[cross-project-issues-dev] Easy Bake Builds with Orbit Bundles


Many of you may be aware of the Orbit project which provides a repository of  third-party bundles for use within Eclipse projects.
http://www.eclipse.org/orbit/overview.php

Consuming Orbit bundles in your builds is very simple transition and takes very little time to implement:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Easy_Bake_Builds_with_Orbit_Bundles

An important caveat is that you must still receive approval through the Eclipse Foundation IP process to include new third-party bundles in your builds.  Just because the bundle is in Orbit, this does not give every project blanket approval to use all of its bundles. These details and more are available in the Orbit FAQ.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Orbit_Faq

Orbit Benefits...
1) Committers both contribute and consume Orbit bundles which reduces the duplication of effort across the community
2) Fewer interoperability problems related to different versions/content of third-party libraries as we converge toward Europa
3) Reduce the amount of effort required during the IP process

If you are interested in becoming involved in Orbit, please post to the Orbit mailing list https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/orbit-dev.

We have been using Orbit bundles since the 3.3M5 cycle without any issues and other teams are using them as well.

Kim

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