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EEF/Releng Guide

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This page is now deprecated starting with EEF 1.6.0, find the updated documentation on the EEF homepage.

EEF Releng HOW TO

The EEF project is built using Athena Common Build, Buckminster and Tycho.

How to start a build?

Automatically

  • Nightly builds are run every 6 hours everyday, at 03:41, 09:41, 15:41 and 21:41 EST, monitoring every change in CVS.

Manually

  • Only committers in the EEF project can launch build jobs from Hudson. ( do not forget to login )
  • 0.8 build [Athena] : go to the 0.8.x job
  • 0.9 build [buckminster] : go to the 0.9.x job
  • 1.0 build [buckminster] : go to the 1.0.x job
  • 1.1 build [tycho] : go to the 1.1.x job

Then:

  • In Hudson, click on Build Now, change the build parameters as needed (see #Build parameters), and click on Build.
  • You can then click on the job name in the Build History section in the left column, and then on Console Output, to follow build progress in real time.

How to test a build?

you can test the latest successful build directly on hudson using the update site URL below :

Use with caution, the contents can be totally untested.

How to publish a build?

Automatically

All successful builds are automatically published to download.eclipse.org once a day. These promote actions are done by a cron job on the build server :

# daily 1.2 EEF builds
ant -f /shared/jobs/emf-eef-1.2/lastSuccessful/archive/releng/org.eclipse.emf.eef.update/target/promotion/promoter.xml -verbose > cronLog-1.2.txt
# daily 1.1 EEF builds
4 11 * * * ant -f /shared/jobs/emf-eef-1.1/lastSuccessful/archive/org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.eef/releng/org.eclipse.emf.eef.update/target/promotion/promoter.xml -verbose > cronLog-1.1.txt
# daily 1.0 EEF builds
3 17 * * * ant -f /shared/jobs/emf-eef-1.0/lastSuccessful/archive/publishroot/publisher.ant -verbose > cronLog-1.0.txt
# daily 0.9 EEF builds
5 22 * * * ant -f /shared/jobs/emf-eef-0.9/lastSuccessful/archive/publishroot/publisher.ant -verbose > cronLog-0.9.txt
# weekly 0.8 EEF builds
12 19 * * 2 bash /shared/jobs/emf-eef-integration/workspace/org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.eef/releng/bash-promote-I.sh

The called scripts unpack the update sites in the correct places, and copies the necessary files in correct places, too.

These builds can then be seen and downloaded from the EEF download page, where additional information is available (test results, build log, build configuration, build dependencies).

See also the EEF Installation page to use the update sites if wanted.

Manually

you can manually publish a successful build, a Release build for example. After testing, ssh to build.eclipse.org with commiter id and password and use the above script depending on what build you want to promote.

Build parameters

Buckminster based builds [0.9-1.0]

  • PROJECTID : modeling.emft.eef : no reason to change this
  • VERSION : the version being built.
  • BUILDTYPE : the kind of build, represented by a code letter (see this page):
    • N: Nightly
    • I: Integration
    • M: Maintenance (NOT milestone)
    • S: Stable (for Milestones and Release Candidate builds)
    • R: Release
  • BUILDALIAS : for release, maintenance and stable builds, use this option to give a more meaningful name to the build. For example, add 0.8.0M2 to get "EEF-SDK-incubation-0.8.0M2.zip" instead of "EEF-SDK-incubation-Sxxxx.zip".
  • FETCHTAG : Force a specific tag to be used when pulling sources from CVS. For example, use HEAD to build from HEAD instead of from the versions specified in the releng project's map files.

Tycho builds [1.1]

  • BUILD_TYPE : the kind of build, represented by a code letter (see this page):
    • N: Nightly
    • I: Integration
    • S: Stable (for Milestones and Release Candidate builds)
    • R: Release
  • BUILD_ALIAS : for release, maintenance and stable builds, use this option to give a more meaningful name to the build. For example, add 1.1.0M2 to get "EEF-SDK-1.1.0M2.zip" instead of "EEF-SDK-Sxxxx.zip".
  • BUILD_SIGN : set to true when building a S or R, for signing the repo

Building locally

First, checkout EEF projects into your workspace :pserver:dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/modeling,org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.eef/

Then install maven 3 somewhere in your filesystem.

Then simply use the external tool launch configuration to build EEF with tycho. Modify the path of the program to launch to point to the maven3 installation directory.

Retention Policy

Code in SCM

Any code that was included in a Release, is left in SCM forever. For all major version, a branch is created with a convenient name, like "0_8_BRANCH". For each Released version, a tag is created with convenient name, like "0_8_0_RELEASE".

Distributions in zip files

Formal releases are kept forever, but only the most recent release is kept on the main download page ( see installation guide ). Other, older distributions can be found on the archive site.

While developing a new releases, ALL milestone builds are kept until the release, at which point they are deleted.

Similarly, while developing a milestone, weekly integration builds are kept until the milestone is available, and then they are deleted.

Finally, while developing an integration build, nightly are kept until the integration is available, and then they are deleted.

Features in update site repository

EEF provides only p2 repository.

Like distribution in zip files, all releases are kept forever on update sites. For each release, there will be a composite repository that aggregates all the releases for a major version.

While developing a new releases, ALL milestone updates sites are kept until the release, at which point they are deleted.

Similarly, while developing a milestone, weekly integration updates sites are kept until the milestone is available, and then they are deleted.

Finally, while developing an integration updates sites, nightly are kept until the integration is available, and then they are deleted.

see installation guide for the list of available update sites.

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