[aerogear-dev] AeroGear UnifiedPush server build feedback

[Daniel Bevenius]

Nice, I like the docker image!


On 6 August 2014 09:47, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org>
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>> Good morning peeps,
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>> I would like to open this thread to discuss some ideas about how to
>> improve the current build on Push server. Lukas have been doing a
>> stellar job improving it and I think we can help.
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>> Yesterday I spent some time trying to build a developer environment for
>> UPS — was a good exercise to realize how people feel trying to contribute.
>> The goal was to build the environment from scratch.
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>> Here comes some feedback (keep in mind that I'm not that good on Node.js)
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>> - Build our dependencies takes a considerable time. For fair
>>   reasons, we are running mvn install, npm install and bower install
>>   for the first time. Maybe we can reduce one step?
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>> - Java developers don't have their environment ready for Node — it can
>>   be a blocker. For example, was necessary to install gcc, libpng and
>>   libpng-devel. I already saw team members struggling with it, like me.
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> gcc, libpng etc -> LOL.
> yeah, that should NOT Be required
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>> - Maybe we should run -Pdev by default and run the complete build only
>>   for CI.
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> yeah, auto activating the -Pdev makes only the very first build take
> forever.
> I think this will improve things already slightly.
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>> - Maybe we can minify some JS dependencies and don't build
>>   everything altogether?
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>> I built an image[1][2], because developers willing to just use UPS with
>> the
>> latest bits might struggle to configure their environment and maybe it
>> can be helpful.
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> That's awesome! This made me install docker :)
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>> The image is not perfect and soon will be moved to jboss/dockerfiles.
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>> Thoughts?
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>> [1] -
>> https://github.com/abstractj/docker/tree/master/aerogear-unifiedpush-dev
>> [2] - https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/abstractj/unifiedpush-dev/
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