Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Re: Europa Build Workshop Report - RSS Fe

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> New code and schema for RSS publishing
and watching are in CVS. Please
> review it, and per the dates set forth at the Europa Build Workshop,
> provide any comments or feedback before Oct 13, after which point
the
> schema will be considered "mostly" frozen.
> 
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.
> php/Europa_Build_Workshop_Report#RSS_Action_Items
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Eclipse_Build_Available_RSS_Schema
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.releng.
> basebuilder/plugins/org.eclipse.build.tools/schema/?_only_with_tag_=releng_test
> 
> Thanks!


Thanks Nick ... but, wwhhaaaaatt?  :)

I spent 30 or so minutes clicking around
going from wiki document to cvs raw repository listing to bugzilla, 
and ... you know how slow I am ... I
could not really find what I was looking for, and could not get a sense
of 
what the "big picture" was.


One thing I was looking for was one
of those evolving design documents, similar to, 
my favorite example, 
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/content_types.html

Its always helpful to have a central
document that describes the problem that's attempting to be solved, the

proposed solution, how the solution
evolves, and, even, holes in the solution, or cases not handled, 
and finally the detailed "how to"
acheive the solution (for both providers to achieve, and 
clients to achieve). 


Another thing I couldn't find was a
description of the "types" of builds. ... I'm pretty sure I saw

somewhere that "Nightly",
"Integration", "Milestone", etc., were recently added
to some schema, but could 
not find that in my 30 minute search.


The reason I was looking for the definitions
of "types" was that I suspect the whole notion "continuous"
vs. 
"declared" is not included,
(and, I think it'd have to be, for our WTP builds, at least, to convey
their proper meaning). 

So, apologies if I just missed it in
my 30 minute search, but ... I'm hoping even that too is useful feedback
for you?