Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] TCK Urls...

[David Blevins <dblevins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 5, 2020, at 12:26 PM, Kevin Sutter <sutter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
I'm finding several inconsistencies with the TCK references in the Specification PRs, especially with the directory structures and expected locations.

In the _index.md file for the TCK location, we should be specifying this directory structure:
https://download.eclipse.org/jakartaee/{spec}/x.y/jakarta-{spec}-tck-x.y.z.zip  (this is in our checklist, so I think we're good with this)

But, where should the "staged" version of the TCK be located?  We have an item in the PR checklist to identify the staged location.  I have seen the following directory structures being referenced...

https://download.eclipse.org/ee4j/cdi/inject/2.0/(as an example)
https://download.eclipse.org/ee4j/jakartaee-tck/jakartaee9-eftl/staged-900/
https://download.eclipse.org/ee4j/jakartaee-tck/jakartaee9-eftl/promoted/

With Jakarta EE 8, it looks like we expected the TCKs to be staged in the "promoted"directory (per a quick sampling of the past PRs - except for cdi and bv...).  How the TCKs get to the "staged-900" and "promoted" directories is a mystery to me.  We started to discuss it on this morning's call.  Maybe we can continue this conversation here instead of waiting for next week's call...

Personally, I just want a complete link that includes the zip file.  As long as the file on the other side of the link is not getting overwritten and stable enough to last a complete PR cycle, I don't care where the project decided to put it.

I'm not a fan of having a directory put in front of me.  I could guess the wrong file, I could accidentally promote the wrong file.  I can't write code to further improve the promotion script so we could perhaps just point at the PR and have it pull out everything that needs promoting.  Then there's miscommunication opportunities: "Well of course that zip file has been overwritten, everyone on our project knows that directory is for nightly builds"

In short, we don't promote directories we promote a zip file.  Give me a zip file and I'm happy.  Give me a directory and now we have to have discussions I'd prefer to avoid.

That's my $0.02 at least.

-David