[jboss-dev] Hack for Continuous Integration in AS

[Andrew Lee Rubinger]

Had a thought regarding the lack of testability for non-released 
components in AS.

The chicken-egg dilemna is:

* We can't validate a release until it passes AS and TCK TestSuites
* We can't integrate into AS until a component is released

So we work around this by releasing, crossing our fingers, and 
re-releasing if a problem pops up.

Some hack idea is:

* Create "component-matrix-continuous" with parent of "component-matrix"
* c-m-c may define versioned SNAPSHOTs in the depMgt section, overriding 
those defined by c-m.
* Make a property to set the artifactId of the parent of thirdparty POM 
to the continuous build:

 > ./build.sh -Dcontinuous=true

...then we can set up Hudson runs to test versioned SNAPSHOTs to catch 
errors that may be coming down the line without affecting the normal build.

WWJD?

S,
ALR

-- 
Andrew Lee Rubinger
Sr. Software Engineer
JBoss, a division of Red Hat, Inc.
http://exitcondition.alrubinger.com