[wtp-releng] Build Setup

[David Carver <dcarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've noticed a LOT of failed builds over this last milestone for the 
main WTP integration build.    That particular build I think only 
completed successfully once or maybe twice where all the unit tests 
passed.    One of the things that I have noticed is that the full WTP 
integration build takes 4 hours to complete.    While I think that is 
fine for a nightly build, it seems overly long for an build to really 
help identify and fix unit tests in a timely manner.

So a suggestion, is there a possibility of setting up smaller builds 
like is done for the XSL Tools incubator project.   This build currently 
takes about 11 minutes to run when it isn't waiting for Eclipse.org to 
sign the jars.    The advantage here is that if any unit tests fail for 
that particular build, they are pretty much isolated to the particular 
project, and it makes readily identify which areas are failing.  It also 
might help get people to review the unit tests and address them quicker 
as well if they know they don't have to wait 4 hours for a build to 
complete.

Suggestions for individual builds would be by Project or Sub Project:

Source Editing
JST
Dali-
Common
Web Services

Also, would it be possible to turn off the jar signing for the 
individual project builds, and only have it enabled during a nightly 
integration build?

Dave