Ganymede/Build

This page is related to the Ganymede Simultaneous Release.

Explanation

The Ganymatic is live and running every day. The status & logs are here: http://build.eclipse.org/ganymede/

In addition to sending emails to project release engineers who are responsible for broken builds, there are three 'Eclipse Build' format RSS feeds available for project teams to monitor. More info on feeds: Getting Started Guide, Feed Schema.

• All builds
• Successful builds
• Failed builds

Of course, there really is no "build" of Ganymede, but only a copying of what is already available on each project's update site, to a central site.

The Projects' Roles

Pre-Project Configuration Files

The pre-project configuration files are stored in the Callisto CVS:

:extssh:<your-committer-id-goes-here>@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/callisto

Or, general "read" access via

:pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/callisto

There is one project:

org.eclipse.ganymede.sitecontributions

Syntax and Semantics

(Still under construction)

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<sc:siteContribution
  xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster/CSpec-1.0"
  xmlns:sc="http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster/SiteContribution-1.0"
  rmapProviderURL="${downloads}/webtools/milestones/site.xml">
    <sc:cspec name="org.eclipse.wtp">
      <dependencies>
        <dependency name="org.eclipse.jpt.feature" 
                    versionDesignator="[1.0.0.v200706250000-77--CYQCCz-CoRPCCCH]" />
        <dependency name="org.eclipse.jst" 
                    versionDesignator="[2.0.0.v200706110805-7B-18dDQISlz0z0cc-oasolrW8jP]" />
        <dependency name="org.eclipse.wst.common_ui.feature" 
                    versionDesignator="[2.0.0.v200706041905-7C5EGzE9RvTVniSrwnf4TgOPe3e9]" />
      </dependencies>
      <groups>
        <public name="Web and JEE Development">
          <attribute component="org.eclipse.jst" />
          <attribute component="org.eclipse.wst.common_ui.feature" />
        </public>
        <public name="Other Development">
          <attribute component="org.eclipse.jpt.feature" />
        </public>
      </groups>
    </sc:cspec>
</sc:siteContribution>

1. ${downloads}/webtools/milestones/site.xml: The location of the project's update site. It's more efficient to access the site via a file path than a url, but a url will work.
2. org.eclipse.jpt.feature: The feature identifier. One per feature (of course). Features are listed one per <dependency .../> node.
3. 2.0.0.v200706041905-7C5EGzE9RvTVniSrwnf4TgOPe3e9: The feature version. One per feature (of course).
4. Web and JEE Development: Categories for the Ganymede site.xml file. These are used to group the features into categories.

Project Responsibilities

Each Ganymede project's PMC and/or Project Leader is responsible to keep its own *.sc (site contribution) file up to date as the project generates new milestones and release candidates. The project's project leader will probably delegate to the project's release engineer(s).

Obviously, each project's own update site must already exist (and be working) at the file location or url specified in the site contribution file.

Typically, as projects move from milestone to milestone (or release candidate to release candidate) only the version identifiers (e.g. 1.0.0.v200706250000-77--CYQCCz-CoRPCCCH]) in the site contribution file will need to be changed. At other times, features might be added, removed, or renamed:

• Adding a feature: add new <dependency> and <attribute> nodes
• Removing a feature: remove the corresponding <dependency> and <attribute> nodes
• Renaming a feature: change the feature identifier (in two places) (e.g., org.eclipse.jpt.feature).

TBD: how to trigger a new build and how to sign off that the project M-bits are ready to use.

The Central Ganymatic

As of 2007/10/14, the Ganymede builds are being run once a day at 11pm Eastern, 8pm Pacific, 5am Europe, 11am China.

TBD: how to trigger a new build and how to sign off that the project M-bits are ready to use.

Running Ganymatic On Your Machine

TBD

Additional Requirements and Information

• bug 204272 requests that build results be notified by email.

See Europa Build for how last year's build worked.