Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

2013-07-04 Thread Alexey Panchenko
Ideally, all the project tests should be executed - using dependencies from the simultaneous release repository. Also, some checks of the compiled classes should be made (e.g. load them all?), to verify that dependencies in the repository are compatible with those used at compile time. Regards,

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

2013-07-04 Thread Mickael Istria
On 07/04/2013 11:52 AM, Alexey Panchenko wrote: Ideally, all the project tests should be executed - using dependencies from the simultaneous release repository. Projects are free to execute their tests on output of aggregated repo. The process is technically accessible to any plugin developer:

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

2013-07-04 Thread Ed Willink
Hi On 04/07/2013 10:52, Alexey Panchenko wrote: Ideally, all the project tests should be executed - using dependencies from the simultaneous release repository. NO. Most project tests are to do with project functionality and so should be guaranteed passes on an aggregation. Dependencies on

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

2013-07-04 Thread Pascal Rapicault
The aggregation tests need only focus on overall integration whereby P2 compromises what is available leading to a completely missing bundle. p2 will never decide to *not* install a bundle just to get the rest to install... Do you have a scenario where this happen? The remediation is about

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

2013-07-04 Thread Mickael Istria
On 07/04/2013 12:34 PM, Pascal Rapicault wrote: What you seem to suggest is that a project higher up the stack test against the base. I think that by construct this is true bearing the change of version of the base. Not exactly, what I'm suggesting is that a project run test against *all

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

2013-07-04 Thread Igor Fedorenko
I don't think this is a workable approach. First, such a test needs to run on all supported platform and jvm combinations, which makes already involved task pretty much impossible to perform, at least for small dev teams like we have in m2e. Second, this won't actually find interoperability

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

2013-07-04 Thread Denis Roy
Or, we could test packages the old-fashioned way -- by actively getting our community involved and excited about the developer builds. This means Tweeting, blogging, announcing and selling the cool new features that go into the new releases. It's a lot of work, but I'm willing to bet that a

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] bugzilla down?

2013-07-04 Thread Eric Gwin
Denis, It may be unrelated, but slow response times appear to be occurring again. Am attempting to ssh to build.eclipse.org, and login response is slow and terminal periodically freezes. sometimes for up to a minute. Eric On 03/07/2013 1:16 PM, Denis Roy wrote: Our ISP has located the