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Platform-releng/Unstable build
Purpose
This page is to describe why a build is marked as Unstable
Platform Build
There are two typed of platform builds performed in regular release cycle. The build process is described here Platform-releng/Platform_Build
- Integration builds(I-Builds) built daily at 8:00 PM EST
- Maintenance builds(M-builds) built at 4:00 AM on every Wednesday EST
Mark Unstable
Sometimes there is a possibility of
- Bad commit causing some important test failures
- Some times due to comparator errors new code might not be in the build.
- any other problem
In these cases the problem affects only a particular component not every one, so it is not correct to fail a build. If other components are waiting for a particular bug fix they can still test their bug fix. but it is not usable to the end user or regular development.
In this scenario we will mark a build unstable and remove it from the update composite repository so that unstable build is not available during the update. If a particular user still wants to try an update he can still do it using the build-specific repository listed in the download.
If a user wants to mark a build unstable they need to send a mail to platform-releng-dev@eclipse.org mailing list informing the need to do so. Platform-releng team will do the needful