[jbosstools-dev] DISCUSSION REQUIRED :: new profile in parent pom for locally testing (old) PRs

Rob & Martin raised a workflow concern yesterday concerning old PRs. * Tester installs the latest JBT CI build, eg., from 20160921 * a 5-day old PR is checked out and built (using the jgit timestamp provider). Because of the jgit timestamp provider, plugins and features changed by the PR get the 5-day old timestamp, eg., 20160916 * Tester then tries to INSTALL the locally-built project, but Eclipse won't let them downgrade from 20160921 to 20160916 version of the changed plugin, because there are newer versions of those same features/plugins in the latest CI. Solution? Force the tester's local build to use CURRENT UTC time/date, making all features/plugins appear newer to Eclipse. PR: https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-build/pull/232 Then build with `mvn clean verify -PR`. Caveat: If you install all these features/plugins into your local Eclipse or devstudio, then try to update from that to a newer nightly/CI build, you may be told you can't downgrade (as those "newer" features will have older timestamps). If this happens just uninstall your local build and update from the latest CI build instead. Further discussion: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-23206 Do you like this idea? Or is this a terrible idea, when you could just merge/rebase the PR against the latest HEAD. Discuss. -- Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio http://nick.divbyzero.com