Revision as of 12:47, 14 March 2009

Order of listed items below should not be taken as priority sequence. For prioritization, see Project Plan (Draft), or the following bugzilla queries:

• Committed Bugs
• Proposed Bugs

Requirements

End User

• properly-defined plugins and features (see JET Transforms/Wizards for creating project meta data)
• a .releng project (see JET Transforms/Wizards for creating project meta data)

System

• UI for running, exploring, validating & promoting builds; UI for killing / purging invalid builds
• automatic build cleanup / expiry
• configuration to be done in Portal
• solution for scheduling builds (eg. crontab-based)
• continuous builds (build queuing, repo watching)
• support for java-only, simple project builds (not products)
• support for building on Linux only (no Win or Mac shared libraries)
• builds must be reproduceable (tagging)
• one build per project or component
• mechanism for producing signed, packed, and digested update sites w/ p2 metadata
• support for Eclipse SCM systems (cvs + svn)

Cross-Project Integration

• mechanism for optionally contributing update site feature(s) to a coordinated release site, a la Ganymede

Enhancements

• support feeding dependencies to build from update site instead of from zips
• support getting latest dependencies from RSS feeds
• support building & testing against multiple versions of target platform
• provide source builds to facilitate the build-from-source scenario (eg., Linux distros)
• automatic cleanup of downloaded/cached dependencies
• support Buckminster
• support SVN
• support Maven-based dependencies
• convert bash scripts that “do work” to Ant scripts w/ custom tasks; submitting these back to PDE build or releng.basebuilder for reuse
• convert bash scripts that “do calculations” to PHP-based web apis, so they can be called by web, shell, ant, or java

Sources

• Metagen Wizards for creating plugin, feature, and .releng projects (GSoC 2008 project, incubating)

• cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/technology -Q co -d org.eclipse.metagen org.eclipse.soc/athena

• Dash Common Build (beta, in progress, v4, 2009?)

• cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/technology -Q co -d org.eclipse.dash.commonbuilder org.eclipse.dash/athena/org.eclipse.dash.commonbuilder

• Modeling Common Build (stable release, v3, 2008)

• cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/modeling -Q co -d org.eclipse.modeling.common.releng releng-common

• EMFT Common Build (stable release, v2, 2007)

• deprecated by Modeling Common Build

• EMF Build (stable release, v1, 2006)

• cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/modeling -Q co -d org.eclipse.emf.releng org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.releng

Contributing

We're always looking for people to contribute. You can drop us a line at dash-dev@eclipse.org.

You can also subscribe to the Dash Commonbuilder Bugzilla inbox, find an open bug to work on (we love patches!), or open a new bug.

Ongoing Development

• Getting Started Guide
• Build Workshop Report - updated (bi)weekly
• Project Plan (Draft)

Past Workshops

• Build Workshop 1: Build Hard
• Build Workshop 2: Build Harder
• Build Workshop 3: Build Hard With A Purpose
• Build Workshop 4: Code's Free So Build Hard