Dependabot PRs' flooding

2022-04-24 Thread Zowalla, Richard
Hi, a few weeks ago, I noticed, that a lot of mails are generated by @dependabot on the TomEE repositories. It contains a lot of false positives (i.e. in the examples) and often requires additional efforts (i.e. code changes, xml adjustments) to upgrade. We are updating the dependencies before r

Re: TCK Work - Smoothing the path (was Re: How can I help?)

2022-04-24 Thread Zowalla, Richard
Ok, I found it: - https://lists.apache.org/thread/sfbvz76c527wojym71csv72k8j2qrrg7 If we adjust the script to target the (released) ee9.1 tck (instead of the snapshots), it will certainly help. (This was the script I had in mint) But while searching the list archive, I also found this post on ha

TCK Work - Smoothing the path (was Re: How can I help?)

2022-04-24 Thread Zowalla, Richard
> > > The trick is that setup is difficult to maintain and can be quite > > intimidating. I can remember ;) - my first attempts in May 21 were indeed intimidating. > Richard, have you tried to run any tests yet? If not, are you > possibly willing to be the brave guy who tries it first, hits th

Re: How can I help?

2022-04-24 Thread David Blevins
If we could get a few more people familiar with running the Jakarta EE TCK in TomEE and ready to start fixing test failures, that'd be the biggest impact on all our current and future certification efforts. The trick is that setup is difficult to maintain and can be quite intimidating. Richard,

Re: How can I help?

2022-04-24 Thread Zowalla, Richard
Hi Zoltán, It's very great from you and it's truly awesome when a long time user of TomEE decides to contribute :) First of all, do not get intimidated by your first ticket. If it ends up being too hard or just not fun, let's find something else for you. There is always plenty of work to do. We