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Platform-releng/Galileo
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Platform Release Engineering Galileo Plan
This document is a work in progress of the major changes that we would like to make during the Galileo release cycle.
Built for speed, faster tests we need
- Run build with 1.6 vm Bug 237354
- Run tests in parallel on several machines to reduce testing time
- Generic templates for complex build changes such as adding a new port and packaging.
Everyone can build
- provide an releng product download that people can download and replicate our build environment. The source build doesn't represent how Eclipse is built.
- invoke builds from web ui authenticated by eclipse committer rights with parameters - maintenance build vs i-builds, tests or not etc.
Further leverage p2 and enhancements to PDE build
- See PDE Build Galileo plan - for example, parallel compilation, fetch using p2, p2 as the packager etc.
Blue sky ideas
- incremental build from p2 repository
- compile at foundation, package locally, depends on availability of the eight vms we use
- Evaluate if platforms, or zips can be removed from the build, with scripts to build with p2
- Stability - evaluate common failures in build and determine how they can be improved.