Europa Build Workshop Breakout Results

Build Best Practices Breakout

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1. Proper version numbering
2. Making builds reproducible
3. Tag files from each release with the same human-readable tag
4. API checking tool from WTP
5. avoid circular dependencies
6. documentation up-to-date; current link available on website; remove old content
7. backup redundant systems
8. separate publishing script from “build” (compilation)
9. able to turn functions on the build on or off e.g. turn off publishing
10. regularly scheduled builds
    1. public humiliation
    2. send email to mailing list
    3. send email to plug-in owner
11. have an update site; optimize update sites
12. pack 200
13. feature design – group plug-ins based on functional grouping