Hi Susinda

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Susinda Perera <[email protected]> wrote:

> + Naming convention for build jobs
> devstudio-tooling-esb, devstudio-tooling-platform and so on, i.e same as
> the repo name.
>

+1 for uniformity of devstudio-* job names. This will help to signify the
repo name which the job is building.


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> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:44 PM, Susinda Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi All
>> I'm thinking of subject as I found some difficulties when trying to
>> release a product tooling. Note that we have following repos[1].
>> Currently we have to set following parameters to trigger a build
>> 1. Release_Type - Product Release or Update Release
>> 2. kernel_version - eg 4.1.0, 4.2.0 or etc
>> 3. Product_code - eg platform, esb, dss, apim, ei and so on
>> 4. Features_List - All
>> 5. Name of the release branch - eg master
>> 6. Releasing_version - Name of your release eg RC2 , Beta
>> 7. Tag - Create a tag - true/false
>> 8. Publish_into_staging_p2 - Publish p2 into staging p2 repository -
>> true/false
>> 9. Publish_main_p2 - Create composite p2 repository - true/false
>> 10. Publish_composite_p2 - Create composite p2 repository (Product plugin
>> + Platform Plugin + Kernel plugins) - true/false
>> 11. Publish_Installed_Distribuntions - Create Installed distributions
>> (composite + eclipse) - true/false
>>
>> I'm suggesting to use only the params  5,10,11,7 and 8 on same order. Let
>> me explain why we do not want other params
>> 1 - For update releases, we see that(from the updates released so far) we
>> have released the entire repo (have no other option as well), not a
>> particular feature only. And also eclipse p2 installer takes care of
>> installing only the updated components, so it does not matter if we release
>> the entire repo even we have a fix in only one component. So we can go
>> with Release_Type=='Product Release' in all the times. Also 4. Feature_List
>> param is broken, is seems it only works for one feature, cannot use 'All'
>> or comma separated names of features. Therefore we can omit the parameter 1
>> and 4.
>> 2 - Kernel version is already defined in the pom and MANIFEST.MF when
>> declaring dependencies
>> 3 - For a particular repo eg devstudio-tooling-ei we don't want to
>> specify the product code again as 'ei' as its redundant
>> 4 - Discussed in 1. above - We do not want this if we go for
>> Release_Type=='Product Release' always
>> 6 - Releasing version - This can be derived from pom
>> 9 - Simplest build is the building main-p2, so we can have this as the
>> default for all builds, Additional builds may contain composite p2 or
>> installed disttributions
>>
>> Once the build is success with param 9, or (9 and 10) or (9 and 10 and
>> 11) then we can create a tag and publish into staging p2. Hence 7. and 8.
>> params are placed at the end.
>>
>> Also id like to suggest following rules for build.
>> Continuous build has to be configured with master branch - It may or may
>> not use 10 and 11 -TBD
>> For releases - A branch has to be created and branch name should be in
>> following format - <version>-release  - eg 4.1.1-release
>> Once released, build job should create a tag in github with his format
>> <version>-release-$GIT_TAG_SAFE_BUILD_TIMESTAMP eg -
>> 4.1.1-release-2017-02-07-233842
>> For updates - A branch need to be created and should be of following
>> format - <version>-update-N - eg 4.1.1-update-1,  4.1.1-update-2,
>>  4.1.1-update-3 etc
>> Once update build is success build job should create a tag in following
>> format - <version>-update-N-$GIT_TAG_SAFE_BUILD_TIMESTAMP,  eg
>> 4.1.1-update-3-2017-02-07-233842
>>
>> *Summary*
>> we may use following params
>>     1. Name of release branch - eg 4.1.1-release
>>     2. Publish_composite_p2
>>     3. Publish_Installed_Distribuntions
>>     4. Tag
>>     5. Publish_into_staging_p2
>> Branch names for releases and updates has to use following naming pattern
>>  4.1.1-release or 4.1.1-update-3
>> Tag names should have similar pattern with $GIT_TAG_SAFE_BUILD_TIMESTAMP
>> appended by the build job
>>
>> Note that this is just few ideas came to my mind for $subject. I might
>> have missed some use cases or this might not work, Therefore please share
>> your thoughts  and good if we can have a discussion on this.
>>
>> [1] - Repo List
>> https://github.com/wso2?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=devstudio-tooling&t
>> ype=&language=
>>
>> Thanks
>> Susinda
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>> --
>> *Susinda Perera*
>> Software Engineer
>> B.Sc.(Eng), M.Sc(Computer Science), AMIE(SL)
>> Mobile:(+94)716049075
>> Blog: susinda.blogspot.com
>> WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com/
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> --
> *Susinda Perera*
> Software Engineer
> B.Sc.(Eng), M.Sc(Computer Science), AMIE(SL)
> Mobile:(+94)716049075
> Blog: susinda.blogspot.com
> WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com/
> Tel : 94 11 214 5345 Fax :94 11 2145300
>
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