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Tagging/branching of JBoss Tools Core subcomponents
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modified by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/maxandersen">Max Rydahl Andersen</a> in <i>JBoss Tools</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-48350">View the full document</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Our recent move to git caused some confusion on how we tag/branch components in JBoss Tools core components.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h1>Current Tag/Branching strategy</h1><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>To avoid future confusion here are the short version of the current approach:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><ol><li>Each component has its own version in manifest.mf/pom.xml</li><li>The git repositories should use tag/branches based on jbosstools version (jbosstools-<version>x for branches, jbosstools-<version> for tag)</li><li>In Jira use the jbosstools version for reporting/targeting issues.</li></ol><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The advantage of the above is that git & jira use the same version. <span style="font-size: 10pt;">i.e. with a unified tag like "jbosstools-4.1.0.Alpha1" you can find which version is used of a specific component for a specific jboss tools release easily.</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>This means from git you always know which branch/tag to checkout for a component to get matching version to a specific jboss tools core build/release. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>With Jira we would need to introduce a project for each individual component since Jira does not support version per components and thus jira queries for knowing current status of JBIDE suddenly gets very complex.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h1></h1><p><span>Discussion about improvements/future tagging can be found </span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-48351" target="_blank">https://community.jboss.org/wiki/FutureStrategyForTaggingJBossToolsCore</a></p></div>
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