[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-23206) build flag for always use current timestamp to assist QE in testing PRs

build flag for always use current timestamp to assist QE in testing PRs ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-23206 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-23206 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Enhancement Components: build Affects Versions: 4.4.2.AM1 Reporter: Rob Stryker Assignee: Nick Boldt In the case where a PR is not rebased against master constantly, QE is blocked from testing it under two situations: 1) The PR job has produced a site. QE installs most recent jbt, then tries to install the PR site. This fails because the PR site is older than the nightly build. 2) The QE rep checks out the PR and tries to build locally. The timestamps match the change date (ie the date the PR was last changed), which is still older than the nightly build. In both situations, QE cannot install a locally-built or PR-built site on top of a more recent nightly build of JBT. We cannot expect QE to rebase and (if required) merge / change code. The best bet here is to simply add a flag QE can use when building locally to always use current timestamp, to ensure locally built unit is always 'newest'. We then document that flag in devdoc for QE and make it part of their standard workflow.