Re: Release artifacts (was: [VOTE] Release 0.16)

2012-05-11 Thread Oleksandr Rudyy
Justin, Robbie,

I tested Java Broker, Java Client and Management Console artefacts.

Everything worked fine for me. No issue is found.

Details of the tests:
Started Java Broker.
Created test queue using Management Console and bound that queue to
the direct exchange.
Published test messages into the test queue using Spout example.
Consumed test messages from the test queue using Drain example.
Used Management Console to verify test queue attributes before and
after publishing and consuming.

The scenario above was used to test broker with Memory message store
and Berkeley Message Store.

I have not tested maven artefacts.

Kind Regards,
Alex

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Re: Release artifacts (was: [VOTE] Release 0.16)

2012-05-10 Thread Justin Ross
Hi, Robbie.  Yes, you're right.  I've corrected the RC4 artifacts at the 
existing RC4 link.


As to Darryl's request, in my opinion we should defer it.

Justin

On Thu, 10 May 2012, Robbie Gemmell wrote:


Hi Justin,

I think it would be good to prepare the final artifacts (some seem
like they could just be renamed, but others indicate RC4 in their
content) so we can test them before we vote, and signing them would
also allow the maven artifacts to be deployed to a staging repo and
tested in advance of the vote closing rather than afterwards.

Also, looking at the RC3 thread I notice Darryl raised a request for
inclusion relating to updating the ruby gem name which still seems
open, is that being deferred to 0.18?

Robbie

On 10 May 2012 01:57, Justin Ross jr...@redhat.com wrote:

Hi.  I've now produced 0.16-rc4 at the following location:

 http://people.apache.org/~jross/qpid-0.16-rc4/

It has just one change beyond RC3, r1336378, which disables the HA tests if
required test tools are not in the environment (Thanks, Alan).

There was one other issue with RC3 that Cajus raised, the Perl client
install on Debian.  Darryl looked into it, and it seems to be a Debian
specific problem.  With this information, I think it's best we press ahead
with the release.  If the fix is minor, we can consider introducing it on
the 0.16 release branch when it becomes available.

So, I'd like to jump straight to the vote.  If you favor releasing the
0.16-rc4 bits as 0.16, vote +1.  If you have a reason to think RC4 is not
ready for release, vote -1.

Thanks!
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Re: Release artifacts

2009-12-10 Thread Martin Ritchie
2009/12/9 Rafael Schloming rafa...@redhat.com:
 Robbie Gemmell wrote:

 I think you have misunderstood what I meant by that entirely, as by the
 build system in general to always generate the release style artifacts I
 meant exactly what you are suggesting, that the build system should be
 modified to generate something we can simply take a (partial) tarball of and
 end up with what we release...ie release style. The reason there is anything
 else in place right now is that they arent, IMO.

 Sorry, I see how you meant that now. My mistake. Clearly I've been too eager
 to rant recently. ;)

 --Rafael

As the one who modified our current Java build system to produce
'release' artefacts I can say it is very easy to generate a packaged
that contains the dependecies for a module. Add 1 line to the module's
build.xml:

target name=release-bin depends=release-bin-tasks/

That said I undestand the desire to have a directory that we then just
tar up for release. However, the thought that tar-ing a directory is
in some way better than using the properties of the build system to
make a tar is some what erroneous. There is no reason that the two
cannot be the same. I have to say I have NEVER used the files in the
build directory and the fact that all the jars end up in the lib dir
and so get put in to qpid-all.jar makes for a very dangerous situation
IMO. Testing with this setup can result in runtime dependencies not
being reflected by the build system.

I would be all for having the release artefacts being built in their
own build directories build/broker, build/client, build/qmf, etc. I'm
totally open to suggestions on how we can do this I simply used the
build system for the task last time as it has knowledge of all the
library dependencies and shipping jars that we don't need as part of
our packages is quite unhelpful, forcing these on to the class path
via qpid-all.jar as we do in the current build directory is just a
receipe for disaster.

Now I feel I may have rant a bit, that wasn't really my intention. I
mearly wanted to point out that if we want to do component releases
form the Java directory for 0.6 it would take less that 2minutes to
sort out. So I think it is a totally doable.

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Re: Release artifacts

2009-12-10 Thread Rafael Schloming

Martin Ritchie wrote:

2009/12/9 Rafael Schloming rafa...@redhat.com:

Robbie Gemmell wrote:

I think you have misunderstood what I meant by that entirely, as by the
build system in general to always generate the release style artifacts I
meant exactly what you are suggesting, that the build system should be
modified to generate something we can simply take a (partial) tarball of and
end up with what we release...ie release style. The reason there is anything
else in place right now is that they arent, IMO.

Sorry, I see how you meant that now. My mistake. Clearly I've been too eager
to rant recently. ;)

--Rafael


As the one who modified our current Java build system to produce
'release' artefacts I can say it is very easy to generate a packaged
that contains the dependecies for a module. Add 1 line to the module's
build.xml:

target name=release-bin depends=release-bin-tasks/


I wasn't suggesting that this is difficult to do, merely that it uses a 
completely different mechanism than the one for generating build artifacts.



That said I undestand the desire to have a directory that we then just
tar up for release. However, the thought that tar-ing a directory is
in some way better than using the properties of the build system to
make a tar is some what erroneous. There is no reason that the two
cannot be the same.


I think I may be missing something here. If they're the same, why not do 
it the simple way (i.e. tar up the directory).


In any case, I'm not really saying that we shouldn't use build system 
properties. What I'm saying is that I don't want the process for 
generating release artifacts to be independent from the one used for 
generating build artifacts.


I have to say I have NEVER used the files in the

build directory and the fact that all the jars end up in the lib dir
and so get put in to qpid-all.jar makes for a very dangerous situation
IMO. Testing with this setup can result in runtime dependencies not
being reflected by the build system.


You may not use the files in the build directory directly, but you do 
use them indirectly because that's the environment that the tests are 
run in, e.g. when the external java broker is launched, it's done by 
executing build/bin/qpid-server.



I would be all for having the release artefacts being built in their
own build directories build/broker, build/client, build/qmf, etc. I'm
totally open to suggestions on how we can do this I simply used the
build system for the task last time as it has knowledge of all the
library dependencies and shipping jars that we don't need as part of
our packages is quite unhelpful, forcing these on to the class path
via qpid-all.jar as we do in the current build directory is just a
receipe for disaster.

Now I feel I may have rant a bit, that wasn't really my intention. I
mearly wanted to point out that if we want to do component releases
form the Java directory for 0.6 it would take less that 2minutes to
sort out. So I think it is a totally doable.


I completely agree qpid-all.jar is a bad idea. I believe it exists as a 
substitute for the giant client.jar that we used to generate by munging 
all the class files together into a single jar, and it replicates some 
of the same problems that system had. I'm not sure why this still 
exists, or indeed why it ever existed. I would be +1 on killing 
qpid-all.jar and using properly defined classpaths instead. (After 0.6 
goes out.)


I'm also fine on adding a component release for qman for 0.6. What I 
don't think is a good idea at this stage (i.e. for 0.6) is to remove the 
full release or recompose it from the component releases since the full 
release is the environment that we actually run our tests in.


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RE: Release artifacts

2009-12-10 Thread Robbie Gemmell
We all seems to agree that it should change, so why dont we start work towards 
agreeing on what it should change to so everyone ends up happy :)

I like Martin's idea of having the build system output artifacts into 
build/broker, build/client etc, each composed of the jars needed to run that 
component rather than everything ending up in build/ as present. That way we 
can test exactly what we release, avoid class path hell as much as possible, 
reduce the number of potentially useless jars going into releases, and when it 
comes to release time all we do is tar up whichever module sub-directories we 
want in a particular component bundle...eg broker, client, broker + client, 
management/x, management/y, all of the above.

Robbie

 -Original Message-
 From: Rafael Schloming [mailto:rafa...@redhat.com]
 Sent: 10 December 2009 21:21
 To: dev@qpid.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Release artifacts
 
 Martin Ritchie wrote:
  2009/12/9 Rafael Schloming rafa...@redhat.com:
  Robbie Gemmell wrote:
  I think you have misunderstood what I meant by that entirely, as by
 the
  build system in general to always generate the release style
 artifacts I
  meant exactly what you are suggesting, that the build system should
 be
  modified to generate something we can simply take a (partial)
 tarball of and
  end up with what we release...ie release style. The reason there is
 anything
  else in place right now is that they arent, IMO.
  Sorry, I see how you meant that now. My mistake. Clearly I've been
 too eager
  to rant recently. ;)
 
  --Rafael
 
  As the one who modified our current Java build system to produce
  'release' artefacts I can say it is very easy to generate a packaged
  that contains the dependecies for a module. Add 1 line to the
 module's
  build.xml:
 
  target name=release-bin depends=release-bin-tasks/
 
 I wasn't suggesting that this is difficult to do, merely that it uses a
 completely different mechanism than the one for generating build
 artifacts.
 
  That said I undestand the desire to have a directory that we then
 just
  tar up for release. However, the thought that tar-ing a directory is
  in some way better than using the properties of the build system to
  make a tar is some what erroneous. There is no reason that the two
  cannot be the same.
 
 I think I may be missing something here. If they're the same, why not
 do
 it the simple way (i.e. tar up the directory).
 
 In any case, I'm not really saying that we shouldn't use build system
 properties. What I'm saying is that I don't want the process for
 generating release artifacts to be independent from the one used for
 generating build artifacts.
 
 I have to say I have NEVER used the files in the
  build directory and the fact that all the jars end up in the lib dir
  and so get put in to qpid-all.jar makes for a very dangerous
 situation
  IMO. Testing with this setup can result in runtime dependencies not
  being reflected by the build system.
 
 You may not use the files in the build directory directly, but you do
 use them indirectly because that's the environment that the tests are
 run in, e.g. when the external java broker is launched, it's done by
 executing build/bin/qpid-server.
 
  I would be all for having the release artefacts being built in their
  own build directories build/broker, build/client, build/qmf, etc. I'm
  totally open to suggestions on how we can do this I simply used the
  build system for the task last time as it has knowledge of all the
  library dependencies and shipping jars that we don't need as part of
  our packages is quite unhelpful, forcing these on to the class path
  via qpid-all.jar as we do in the current build directory is just a
  receipe for disaster.
 
  Now I feel I may have rant a bit, that wasn't really my intention. I
  mearly wanted to point out that if we want to do component releases
  form the Java directory for 0.6 it would take less that 2minutes to
  sort out. So I think it is a totally doable.
 
 I completely agree qpid-all.jar is a bad idea. I believe it exists as a
 substitute for the giant client.jar that we used to generate by munging
 all the class files together into a single jar, and it replicates some
 of the same problems that system had. I'm not sure why this still
 exists, or indeed why it ever existed. I would be +1 on killing
 qpid-all.jar and using properly defined classpaths instead. (After 0.6
 goes out.)
 
 I'm also fine on adding a component release for qman for 0.6. What I
 don't think is a good idea at this stage (i.e. for 0.6) is to remove
 the
 full release or recompose it from the component releases since the full
 release is the environment that we actually run our tests in.
 
 --Rafael
 
 
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Re: Release artifacts

2009-12-09 Thread Rafael Schloming

Robbie Gemmell wrote:

Hi all,

Now that we have entered another release phase I think it would be a good time to discuss the release artifacts. I would like to see 0.6 ship with some updates to the artifacts we produce to make things more useful and obvious for our users. 


I think it's a bit late for 0.6, if I understand the timeline correctly.

The Java broker, client, and tools multi-component package appears to be just a copy of the etc/ lib/ and bin/ directories from the qpid/java/build/ dir after performing a build and this makes it quite messy. A lot of test configuration files are left in the etc/ dir and there are loads of jars in the lib/ dir, which make it very hard to know which is being used where or allow splitting them up easily. You also end up with jars that just aren't intended to be used from there (eg the eclipse-plugin used in the JMX Management Console releases). We have single component packages for the Java broker, client, and management tools so if we want a multi-component package including any of these I think we should simply bundle those up instead of just tarring the build folder and mashing everything together. 


I sort of disagree with this. There is a philosophy behind using the 
just a copy approach. The benefit is that we can eliminate a whole 
class of bugs resulting from complex transformations necessary to turn 
the build artifacts into release artifacts. Not to mention it is easier 
for us to reproducer user issues if dev and user environments are as 
similar as possible.


That said I'm fine cleaning up the release artifacts and what not, I'm 
just -1 on doing it by introducing complex transformations between build 
and release artifacts. If we want the release artifacts to look 
different we should make the build artifacts look different.


As I've said before I'm happy to help with this, but we sort of need to 
figure out what we want things to look like first, and IMHO such an 
effort should also include making release artifacts more consistent 
across the whole project.



Another result of the above is that QMan is shipped in the Java multi-component 
bundle despite the fact it is only useful if you have a C++ broker. I realise 
it is written in Java, but those packages don't seem to me like they should 
necessarily be language specific. If anything I would say that QMan should 
surely ship in the multi-component bundle along with the items it can actually 
be used with (ie the C++ broker and client bundle), or just be made available 
standalone (which it already is). Users aren't necessarily going to expect they 
need to download both multi-component packages to make use of everything 
contained in one of them, and as mentioned above, splitting QMan alone out of 
the java multi-component bundle would be a bit hideous and non obvious anyway.

I would also like to see us tagging the source-only release artifacts with 'src', ie the 
C++ and the full release artifact that is just a copy of the entire repo. It 
isn't exactly helpful for a user to download the 50MB file then find out what they are 
looking for isn't actually in there.


I also think it's a shame that our artifacts look like they come from 
entirely different projects. Even little things like readme 
capitalization, general directory layout, etc is completely different 
from artifact to artifact, and this is even after the release script 
hacks to rearchive stuff to make things a bit more consistent.


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RE: Release artifacts

2009-12-09 Thread Robbie Gemmell
I'm not meaning to suggest doing any complex transformations, rather using what 
is already there. We have single-component packages that we already release 
separately for all these items, I'm just talking about whacking the relevant 
ones in a new tar and calling job done, instead of having a mashup that 
contains things people don't want or that can't even be used together.

Robbie

 -Original Message-
 From: Rafael Schloming [mailto:rafa...@redhat.com]
 Sent: 09 December 2009 17:17
 To: dev@qpid.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Release artifacts
 
 Robbie Gemmell wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  Now that we have entered another release phase I think it would be a
 good time to discuss the release artifacts. I would like to see 0.6
 ship with some updates to the artifacts we produce to make things more
 useful and obvious for our users.
 
 I think it's a bit late for 0.6, if I understand the timeline
 correctly.
 
  The Java broker, client, and tools multi-component package appears
 to be just a copy of the etc/ lib/ and bin/ directories from the
 qpid/java/build/ dir after performing a build and this makes it quite
 messy. A lot of test configuration files are left in the etc/ dir and
 there are loads of jars in the lib/ dir, which make it very hard to
 know which is being used where or allow splitting them up easily. You
 also end up with jars that just aren't intended to be used from there
 (eg the eclipse-plugin used in the JMX Management Console releases). We
 have single component packages for the Java broker, client, and
 management tools so if we want a multi-component package including any
 of these I think we should simply bundle those up instead of just
 tarring the build folder and mashing everything together.
 
 I sort of disagree with this. There is a philosophy behind using the
 just a copy approach. The benefit is that we can eliminate a whole
 class of bugs resulting from complex transformations necessary to turn
 the build artifacts into release artifacts. Not to mention it is easier
 for us to reproducer user issues if dev and user environments are as
 similar as possible.
 
 That said I'm fine cleaning up the release artifacts and what not, I'm
 just -1 on doing it by introducing complex transformations between
 build
 and release artifacts. If we want the release artifacts to look
 different we should make the build artifacts look different.
 
 As I've said before I'm happy to help with this, but we sort of need to
 figure out what we want things to look like first, and IMHO such an
 effort should also include making release artifacts more consistent
 across the whole project.
 
  Another result of the above is that QMan is shipped in the Java
 multi-component bundle despite the fact it is only useful if you have a
 C++ broker. I realise it is written in Java, but those packages don't
 seem to me like they should necessarily be language specific. If
 anything I would say that QMan should surely ship in the multi-
 component bundle along with the items it can actually be used with (ie
 the C++ broker and client bundle), or just be made available standalone
 (which it already is). Users aren't necessarily going to expect they
 need to download both multi-component packages to make use of
 everything contained in one of them, and as mentioned above, splitting
 QMan alone out of the java multi-component bundle would be a bit
 hideous and non obvious anyway.
 
  I would also like to see us tagging the source-only release artifacts
 with 'src', ie the C++ and the full release artifact that is just a
 copy of the entire repo. It isn't exactly helpful for a user to
 download the 50MB file then find out what they are looking for isn't
 actually in there.
 
 I also think it's a shame that our artifacts look like they come from
 entirely different projects. Even little things like readme
 capitalization, general directory layout, etc is completely different
 from artifact to artifact, and this is even after the release script
 hacks to rearchive stuff to make things a bit more consistent.
 
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Re: Release artifacts

2009-12-09 Thread Robert Godfrey
2009/12/9 Rafael Schloming rafa...@redhat.com

 Robbie Gemmell wrote:

 Hi all,

 Now that we have entered another release phase I think it would be a good
 time to discuss the release artifacts. I would like to see 0.6 ship with
 some updates to the artifacts we produce to make things more useful and
 obvious for our users.


 I think it's a bit late for 0.6, if I understand the timeline correctly.


  The Java broker, client, and tools multi-component package appears to be
 just a copy of the etc/ lib/ and bin/ directories from the qpid/java/build/
 dir after performing a build and this makes it quite messy. A lot of test
 configuration files are left in the etc/ dir and there are loads of jars in
 the lib/ dir, which make it very hard to know which is being used where or
 allow splitting them up easily. You also end up with jars that just aren't
 intended to be used from there (eg the eclipse-plugin used in the JMX
 Management Console releases). We have single component packages for the Java
 broker, client, and management tools so if we want a multi-component package
 including any of these I think we should simply bundle those up instead of
 just tarring the build folder and mashing everything together.


 I sort of disagree with this. There is a philosophy behind using the
 just a copy approach. The benefit is that we can eliminate a whole class
 of bugs resulting from complex transformations necessary to turn the build
 artifacts into release artifacts. Not to mention it is easier for us to
 reproducer user issues if dev and user environments are as similar as
 possible.

 That said I'm fine cleaning up the release artifacts and what not, I'm just
 -1 on doing it by introducing complex transformations between build and
 release artifacts. If we want the release artifacts to look different we
 should make the build artifacts look different.

 As I've said before I'm happy to help with this, but we sort of need to
 figure out what we want things to look like first, and IMHO such an effort
 should also include making release artifacts more consistent across the
 whole project.


I think this is the key point - we need to work out how our build and
release artefacts look; since what we have today is clearly unsatisfactory.

If there are quick, non-risky, changes that we could put in place for 0.6
that are universally acknowledged as a step in the right direction, I
wouldn't necessarily be against them - however I don't think we want to
embark on anything that will negatively impact a 0.6 release date at this
stage.  I am hugely +1 in doing this work before 0.7 (it's clearly a
necessity for us if we ever want to get to a 1.0 release)



  Another result of the above is that QMan is shipped in the Java
 multi-component bundle despite the fact it is only useful if you have a C++
 broker. I realise it is written in Java, but those packages don't seem to me
 like they should necessarily be language specific. If anything I would say
 that QMan should surely ship in the multi-component bundle along with the
 items it can actually be used with (ie the C++ broker and client bundle), or
 just be made available standalone (which it already is). Users aren't
 necessarily going to expect they need to download both multi-component
 packages to make use of everything contained in one of them, and as
 mentioned above, splitting QMan alone out of the java multi-component bundle
 would be a bit hideous and non obvious anyway.

 I would also like to see us tagging the source-only release artifacts with
 'src', ie the C++ and the full release artifact that is just a copy of the
 entire repo. It isn't exactly helpful for a user to download the 50MB file
 then find out what they are looking for isn't actually in there.


 I also think it's a shame that our artifacts look like they come from
 entirely different projects. Even little things like readme capitalization,
 general directory layout, etc is completely different from artifact to
 artifact, and this is even after the release script hacks to rearchive stuff
 to make things a bit more consistent.


Agree again completely.  We have a lot of work to do - which we should do as
a matter of priority - in sorting out  our artefacts to present a more
consistent appearance across the project.

-- Rob


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RE: Release artifacts

2009-12-09 Thread Robbie Gemmell
I can see what you are saying and thus agree that it would be beneficial for 
the build system in general to always generate the release style artifacts. 
However I don't see that this means we shouldn't use what we have at our 
disposal now in order to give our users a better experience than we currently 
are.

Robbie

 -Original Message-
 From: Rafael Schloming [mailto:rafa...@redhat.com]
 Sent: 09 December 2009 17:45
 To: dev@qpid.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Release artifacts
 
 Robbie Gemmell wrote:
  I'm not meaning to suggest doing any complex transformations, rather
 using what is already there. We have single-component packages that we
 already release separately for all these items, I'm just talking about
 whacking the relevant ones in a new tar and calling job done, instead
 of having a mashup that contains things people don't want or that can't
 even be used together.
 
 My issue with this is that the single-component packages weren't done
 according to the philosophy of the build system, and as such the
 process for producing component release artifacts diverges somewhat
 significantly from the process for producing build artifacts. So while
 what you suggest might not involve additional complex transformations,
 it does result in something that I would prefer to avoid, which is two
 separate systems, one for producing build artifacts, and the other for
 producing release artifacts.
 
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Re: Release artifacts

2009-12-09 Thread Rajith Attapattu
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Robert Godfrey rob.j.godf...@gmail.com wrote:
 2009/12/9 Rafael Schloming rafa...@redhat.com

 Robbie Gemmell wrote:

 Hi all,

 Now that we have entered another release phase I think it would be a good
 time to discuss the release artifacts. I would like to see 0.6 ship with
 some updates to the artifacts we produce to make things more useful and
 obvious for our users.


 I think it's a bit late for 0.6, if I understand the timeline correctly.


  The Java broker, client, and tools multi-component package appears to be
 just a copy of the etc/ lib/ and bin/ directories from the qpid/java/build/
 dir after performing a build and this makes it quite messy. A lot of test
 configuration files are left in the etc/ dir and there are loads of jars in
 the lib/ dir, which make it very hard to know which is being used where or
 allow splitting them up easily. You also end up with jars that just aren't
 intended to be used from there (eg the eclipse-plugin used in the JMX
 Management Console releases). We have single component packages for the Java
 broker, client, and management tools so if we want a multi-component package
 including any of these I think we should simply bundle those up instead of
 just tarring the build folder and mashing everything together.


 I sort of disagree with this. There is a philosophy behind using the
 just a copy approach. The benefit is that we can eliminate a whole class
 of bugs resulting from complex transformations necessary to turn the build
 artifacts into release artifacts. Not to mention it is easier for us to
 reproducer user issues if dev and user environments are as similar as
 possible.

 That said I'm fine cleaning up the release artifacts and what not, I'm just
 -1 on doing it by introducing complex transformations between build and
 release artifacts. If we want the release artifacts to look different we
 should make the build artifacts look different.

 As I've said before I'm happy to help with this, but we sort of need to
 figure out what we want things to look like first, and IMHO such an effort
 should also include making release artifacts more consistent across the
 whole project.


 I think this is the key point - we need to work out how our build and
 release artefacts look; since what we have today is clearly unsatisfactory.

 If there are quick, non-risky, changes that we could put in place for 0.6
 that are universally acknowledged as a step in the right direction, I
 wouldn't necessarily be against them - however I don't think we want to
 embark on anything that will negatively impact a 0.6 release date at this
 stage.  I am hugely +1 in doing this work before 0.7 (it's clearly a
 necessity for us if we ever want to get to a 1.0 release)

Totally agree here.
I think for the 0.7 release we definitely need to consider sorting out
our documentation and release artifacts a top priority.
I also agree that we need to have a consistent story across all our
components than a per language approach.


  Another result of the above is that QMan is shipped in the Java
 multi-component bundle despite the fact it is only useful if you have a C++
 broker. I realise it is written in Java, but those packages don't seem to me
 like they should necessarily be language specific. If anything I would say
 that QMan should surely ship in the multi-component bundle along with the
 items it can actually be used with (ie the C++ broker and client bundle), or
 just be made available standalone (which it already is). Users aren't
 necessarily going to expect they need to download both multi-component
 packages to make use of everything contained in one of them, and as
 mentioned above, splitting QMan alone out of the java multi-component bundle
 would be a bit hideous and non obvious anyway.

 I would also like to see us tagging the source-only release artifacts with
 'src', ie the C++ and the full release artifact that is just a copy of the
 entire repo. It isn't exactly helpful for a user to download the 50MB file
 then find out what they are looking for isn't actually in there.


 I also think it's a shame that our artifacts look like they come from
 entirely different projects. Even little things like readme capitalization,
 general directory layout, etc is completely different from artifact to
 artifact, and this is even after the release script hacks to rearchive stuff
 to make things a bit more consistent.


 Agree again completely.  We have a lot of work to do - which we should do as
 a matter of priority - in sorting out  our artefacts to present a more
 consistent appearance across the project.

 -- Rob


 --Rafael



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Re: Release artifacts

2009-12-09 Thread Rafael Schloming

Robbie Gemmell wrote:

I can see what you are saying and thus agree that it would be beneficial for 
the build system in general to always generate the release style artifacts. 
However I don't see that this means we shouldn't use what we have at our 
disposal now in order to give our users a better experience than we currently 
are.


I'm saying more than just always generate the release style artifacts, 
they need to be generated in such a way that starting up a devel server 
is using the same scripting and artifacts that the end user encounters 
when they attempt the same sort of exercise from the release tarball. 
Moreover I'm saying that there should be no such thing as release style 
artifacts, only build artifacts, and the various release tarballs 
should simply be archives (either whole or in part) of the build artifacts.


And on top of all this it needs to be simple, fast, and properly do 
incremental builds so that it's actually usable for those of us who have 
chosen not to participate in this passing IDE fad. ;)


I don't want to seem discouraging, I agree with your goals, I'm just 
particular about how we get there and I'm not eager to pile another 
quick hack on top of things. Doing all this without hacks shouldn't be 
terribly difficult as long as we figure out what we want first and 
choose something sensible.


--Rafael

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RE: Release artifacts

2009-12-09 Thread Robbie Gemmell
I think you have misunderstood what I meant by that entirely, as by the build 
system in general to always generate the release style artifacts I meant 
exactly what you are suggesting, that the build system should be modified to 
generate something we can simply take a (partial) tarball of and end up with 
what we release...ie release style. The reason there is anything else in place 
right now is that they arent, IMO.

Robbie

 -Original Message-
 From: Rafael Schloming [mailto:rafa...@redhat.com]
 Sent: 09 December 2009 19:38
 To: dev@qpid.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Release artifacts
 
 Robbie Gemmell wrote:
  I can see what you are saying and thus agree that it would be
 beneficial for the build system in general to always generate the
 release style artifacts. However I don't see that this means we
 shouldn't use what we have at our disposal now in order to give our
 users a better experience than we currently are.
 
 I'm saying more than just always generate the release style artifacts,
 they need to be generated in such a way that starting up a devel server
 is using the same scripting and artifacts that the end user encounters
 when they attempt the same sort of exercise from the release tarball.
 Moreover I'm saying that there should be no such thing as release
 style
 artifacts, only build artifacts, and the various release tarballs
 should simply be archives (either whole or in part) of the build
 artifacts.
 
 And on top of all this it needs to be simple, fast, and properly do
 incremental builds so that it's actually usable for those of us who
 have
 chosen not to participate in this passing IDE fad. ;)
 
 I don't want to seem discouraging, I agree with your goals, I'm just
 particular about how we get there and I'm not eager to pile another
 quick hack on top of things. Doing all this without hacks shouldn't be
 terribly difficult as long as we figure out what we want first and
 choose something sensible.
 
 --Rafael
 
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Re: Release artifacts

2009-12-09 Thread Rafael Schloming

Robbie Gemmell wrote:

I think you have misunderstood what I meant by that entirely, as by the build 
system in general to always generate the release style artifacts I meant exactly 
what you are suggesting, that the build system should be modified to generate something 
we can simply take a (partial) tarball of and end up with what we release...ie release 
style. The reason there is anything else in place right now is that they arent, IMO.


Sorry, I see how you meant that now. My mistake. Clearly I've been too 
eager to rant recently. ;)


--Rafael


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