Sebastian,
Note that the job which does this testing is this one which includes a
link to the overall report (which loads very slowly and is bad for the
server):
https://ci.eclipse.org/oomph/job/marketplace-analyzer/
The testing actually tests every listing (does a p2 resolve) against
every Eclipse version Juno through 2019. It will only create an error
marker if the p2 resolution fails *and *the listing specifies it should
be installable in this version. If the resolution succeeds, it creates
a green marker, regardless of whether the listing specifies it should be
installable for that version.
Of course it's quite possible that there are error or oversights in the
testing process. After all, I really won't expect Xtext to install in
such an old version; I'm quite sure it doesn't. So I will investigate
why resolution succeeds in the test.
Regards,
Ed
On 10.12.2019 12:30, Sebastian Zarnekow wrote:
Hi Ed,
thank you very much for providing all the insights and reports. This
is greatly appreciated!
When I checked the report for the Xtext marketplace entry, I saw a
green checkmark for the Juno release, even though the marketplace
entry is only for Oxygen and newer. What does that mean?
Best
Sebastian
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:12 PM Ed Merks <ed.me...@gmail.com
<mailto:ed.me...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
On a more positive note, for the 2019-12 release, the installer
exploits the platform's cool "link handler" support that was
implemented by Matthias Becker; thanks Lars Vogel for drawing my
attention to this gem.
As an example, this means that clicking the following link can
automatically launch the installer, in this case, initializing it
in order to provision a specialized IDE for contributing to SimRel.
eclipse+installer:https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/interim/SimultaneousReleaseTrainConfiguration.setup
It's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem that you must first
download and register the installer once. To make this step more
self-documenting, I've created a "help" page that describes how to
exploit this feature:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/installer/?url=https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/interim/SimultaneousReleaseTrainConfiguration.setup&show=true
This page uses the documentation extracted from the configuration
(specified in the query parameter) so that it's contextually
tailored, including all its links.
I've updated the simrel wiki to describe this automated approach
to set up an environment for contributing to simrel:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Simrel/Contributing_to_Simrel_Aggregation_Build#Get_the_simrel.build_project
So there isn't really a good excuse not to use the aggregation
editor. Admitted I too typically just edit my *.aggrcon files
actually, but mostly because saving creates such a big delta. But
the editor does have advantages, i.e., I can see if I pasted the
URL incorrectly and that the IUs resolve correctly. More
importantly, as I mentioned previously, if you're adding a feature
that needs to be in a category or removing a feature when it or
any other feature after it are in a category, you will break the
model if you do this textually. And there were many such broken
links as a result...
This same mechanism can be used to provision a development
environment with the source for the full Platform SDK:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/installer/?url=https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/interim/PlatformSDKConfiguration.setup&show=true
You can do this for your own projects too. One-click
contributions from your community are at you finger tips.
In addition, this same mechanism can also be used to install
marketplace listings, e.g.,
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/installer/?url=https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/wild-web-developer-html-css-javascript-typescript-nodejs-angular-json-yaml-kubernetes-xml&show=true
So the installer now allows users to create an installation that
includes one more additional marketplace listings as well.
To help make the marketplace listings great again, the listings
are now tested daily. Bad listings give a bad impression of
Eclipse, especially when we provide them ourselves.
Currently there are 1316 marketplace listings that specify update
sites. Of those, 541 have problems; some have minor problems,
e.g., it can't be installed in the versions of Eclipse with which
it's specified to be compatible, but many have major problems,
i.e., the p2 site doesn't exist or doesn't contain the
bundles/features that are required by the listing. The user
perception is that anything they get from marketplace is "Eclipse"
and any problem with those are "Eclipse" problems...
If you maintain a listing, you can review the test results for
your listing as follows:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/marketplace/?url=https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/wild-web-developer-html-css-javascript-typescript-nodejs-angular-json-yaml-kubernetes-xml
For the above listing, we can see that it doesn't actually install
in versions of Eclipse older than Photon (and we can see why by
clicking on the error icons) so it would be best to improve this
listing to exclude those versions.
Thanks to the Foundation's awesome web designers, a link to these
listing-specific test results is available via the circled link on
your listing's site:
So if you maintain a marketplace listing, please help make it
great too!!
If you have comments, suggestions, or concerns about the
marketplace listing reporting, please do so in:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550713
If you have comments, suggestions, or concerns about the
installer's web link support, please do so in:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551315
Regards,
Ed
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