[jbosstools-dev] Literate Build (was Re: Building the server component)

Literate Builds seem quite interesting, unfortunately, I'm not sure it would be easy/helpful to apply to our use-case. The default and documented way to build something is just "mvn clean verify", but our jobs do more to reduce the feedback loop and speed up the overall build flow (Configuraiton of Xvnc, metaciy; "mvn clean install", then publish, then "mvn clean verify" on tests). The fact is that our CI jobs are currently not only focusing on the code it's building, but also on how to make it interacting with other jobs. That makes it hard to use literate build for our jobs as the way jobs are configured is not something very relevent in the project repository. However, if it comes to simple "validate PR" jobs where the only build step is "mvn clean verify", then I think the Literate plugin can be used. However, is there a big benefit in configuring literate plugin in job compared to just typing "mvn clean verify" in job? I'm not sure... And even if we go for using the Literate plugin, we end up with 20 more new jobs to maintain. There is no difficulty in configuring 1 job, the difficulty is in configuring 20 ones. The appropriate solution to factorize configuration seems to be the Folder plugin: http://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-enterprise-by-cloudbees-features-folders... . Maybe you should ask for a demo while you're around CloudBees guys at JavaOne. -- Mickael Istria Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria>