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

Nick Boldt (JIRA) issues at jboss.org
Tue Sep 20 21:08:00 EDT 2016


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Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-23206:
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PR: 

To test this out:

1. clone the jbosstools-build project and build the parent pom with this PR applied: https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-build/pull/232
2. clone jbosstools-openshift, and build from master. observe the timestamps of openshift.client plugin and openshift.feature in jbosstools-openshift/site/target/repository/
3. apply this PR https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-openshift/pull/1312 and build again. observe the timestamps of openshift.client plugin and openshift.feature.
4. NOW... using the new R profile in parent pom ( https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-build/pull/232 ) rebuild openshift:

{code}mvn clean install -PR{code}

5. observe that ALL the features and plugins in jbosstools-openshift/site/target/repository/ have the timestamp of when you started the latest build, in UTC (GMT+0).



> 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. 



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