On 1/29/2014 2:29 PM, Wim Jongman
wrote:
What is important is the build of these new
features for platform consumption, whether we build with Tycho
or Bucky.
I would amend this a little...what's most important to me is the
build of all the ECF features...for ECF consumer consumption. I'm
hopeful that these feature refactoring changes will make our
interaction with the platform consumption easier...both on us, them,
and on our consumers (which is my major concern wrt 409787).
For most people, getting a trivial build going with
Tycho is much easier than it is with Bucky.
Perhaps true, but
a) this is not a trivial build...it's go multiple pieces/features,
which dependencies between them and other other things, signing,
automated testing, automated running of OSGi CT tests, etc.
b) we already have both the build and the expertise with our current
Bucky-based build
c) I'm not personally able to make the commitment to learning,
using, and redoing all that we already have going with Tycho...in
the short term at least
d) we are going to need some additional/new releng efforts over the
next few years...but this is not unusual for us...it's also true for
other new parts of ECF (new providers, new APIs, etc).
Unless we are going to rely on M. for the next
couple of years, your only choice is switching to Tycho or hope
for Buckminster to awake from the dead.
Well, it's my hope that someone new will step up. Markus (and to a
lesser extent me and you) has been doing wonderful service on ECF
releng for the past few years.
> (i.e.
someone is going to have to commit to maintain the Tycho
build for us over the next few years).
I
like your recruiting method but I don't think you find
someone to fill this profile for Tycho or Buckminster. ;-)
Why do you say that? Is the releng/tools world going back to
Makefile? ;-)
Scott
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