[jboss-dev] Hack for Continuous Integration in AS

[David M. Lloyd]

On 02/19/2009 01:04 PM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> Andrew Lee Rubinger wrote:
>> Jason T. Greene wrote:
>>> Hmm. The thing I wonder though is how useful this will be if you 
>>> start pulling in everyone's snapshots. You will probably end up with 
>>> incompatible combinations.
>>
>> We'd have to curtail this by saying "you can put SNAPSHOTs here, but 
>> on a limited basis and then take 'em out".
> 
> If you pull out the updates then you don't get the "continuous" testing 
> I thought you were looking for. Then its really more like a dry-run 
> branch, except that it's everyone's dry run at the same time.
> 
>> For instance, right now we'd have VFS and some other related stuff in 
>> Branch_5_0 only.  When those SNAPSHOTs being tested are released, the 
>> snapshot override is removed.
> 
> Exactly, and that was a bad idea that has killed any productive use of 
> that branch other than testing the VFS.

Yeah, putting unversioned snapshots in *just doesn't work*, *period*.  It's 
not a lot of effort to put out a versioned snapshot.

It's this simple: unversioned snapshots = non-reproducable builds

You're talking about buying some small convenience for one developer at the 
cost of all the others.

- DML