[jbosstools-dev] New mechanism for target=platforms

Hi all, We'd like to provide an improvement to target-platform management that would make them more reliable, thanks to more validation, and more automation (less manual error-prone maintainance). The first step consists in this bug: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12565 The idea is to automatically generate unified.target and local.target from multiple.target. Also, we'll split the target-platforms in several maven artifacts (GAVs), so that we can publish them more incrementally and perform much more validation to guarantee that what is published is always synchronized with our sites. Artifact and group IDs for target-platform will change. However, profiles will be updated in parent pom to use those new artifacts, so you should not be affected by this change, but since Target Platform are a central component, it may cause a bad day if things go worse than expected. The plan is the following: Step 1: I set up the CI job for this new mechanism (since artifact changed it won't collide with current platforms). Publication of the aggregated target site will still be done by previous job. Step 2: when we are in a good state, remove publication of aggregated target site from current job and move it to the new one Step 3: when we are in a good state, change profiles in parent pom to use new targets Step 4: remove old jobs from Jenkins and old target-platform mechanism from SVN. Step 5: there's no step 5. I'll start tomorrow with Step 1, the goal is to have all this finished for Tuesday (before code-freeze). Please share any concern. Cheers, -- 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>