[forge-dev] arquillian powered forge deployer

[Dan Allen]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 14:23, Andrew Lee Rubinger <alr at alrubinger.com>wrote:

> Sounds to me like this is something to be broken off from Arquillian
> honestly.  If we draw the bounds of Arquillian to be:
>
> "An adaptor between test lifecycle and backing container lifecycle, with
> additional services support"
>
> ...then it sounds like the logic of doing deployment (to be reused by other
> projects) should live outside Arquillian, and be consumed both by these
> other projects and Arquillian itself.
>
> In that case we'd reopen the discussion of a deployment abstraction project
> to be shared by all.
>

I agree that the container adapters can be viewed as an independent
ecosystem from Arquillian proper, but the implications of having yet another
project, I think, are too much to handle logistically atm (another name,
another project site, eek).

To strengthen that point, the pool of developers working on adapters for
uses outside of Arquillian is likely the same set as those working on the
adapters for the purpose of using them in Arquillian. So, at least for now,
I think the container adapters should be a subproject of the Arquillian
brand (Arquillian Containers)...similar to ShrinkWrap Descriptors. It may
get more of an identity in the long run, but let's focus on the technical
requirements before getting caught up in organizational ones.

...that's, at least, my advice for how to make this succeed.

-Dan

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