Re: [tycho-user] Support for Maven parallel build

[Sandra Parsick <sparsick@xxxxxx>]

> That's a bad idea based on a lack of understanding of how open-source works best.

+1 I fully agree.

> I don't know whether it would be enough, but in any case, any good contribution is welcome as long as it improves stuff (even if it doesn't fully fix things). So yes, please prepare a patch ;)

Great! I will prepare a patch in the next days. We will see if it is
enough.:)


Best regards,

Sandra

Am 01.04.20 um 08:27 schrieb Mickael Istria:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 7:36 AM Sandra Parsick <sparsick@xxxxxx
> <mailto:sparsick@xxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     in my team, there is a discussion to parallel our Tycho build using the
>     Maven -T option. With Tycho 1.6, we get too often
>     ConcurrentModificationExceptions. One of my colleague saw that this
>     feature is planned for 1.7 release
> 
> 
> It's not fully "planned" but there is indeed some ongoing work, as you
> mentioned it's tracked in
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=380169
>  
> 
>     he propose to fork current Tycho master branch, doing some fixes 
> 
> 
> That's a bad idea based on a lack of understanding of how open-source
> works best.
> In the end, your forked branch and Tycho will diverge and you'll have to
> spend a lot of time re-synchronizing them whenever you want to use a new
> Tycho release. You'll quickly waste more energy in it than it would take
> to directly contribute the fixes to Tycho. The ROI of forking as OSS
> project vs contributing is always bad in the end.
> This is even more true for Tycho which publish good snapshot builds
> whenever there is a change, so the "time to market" between a merged
> patch and you can try it for your build is less than 24 hours.
>  
> 
>     what are the remaining tasks for this feature and do
>     exist a possible release date for 1.7?
> 
> 
> I don't know. Some discussion on the ticket may answer that. But I think
> at the moment, best would be that you test it, and report specific
> issues for each problem you face. As bug 380169 is already full of info,
> you can probably just open new tickets and mark them as "Blocks: 380169"
> in the dedicated Bugzilla field
> 
>     I have a look at the related ticket [1]. I understand that still three
>     plugins are not thread-safe. Would be it enough to fix them with the
>     solution which the xtext-maven-plugin chose? [2] If applicable, I could
>     prepare a patch for them.
> 
> 
> I don't know whether it would be enough, but in any case, any good
> contribution is welcome as long as it improves stuff (even if it doesn't
> fully fix things). So yes, please prepare a patch ;)
> 
> HTH
> 
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