[dash-dev] FTP/SCP Ant Task for Promotion

[David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is another idea.  Since Ant 1.6, ant comes with an SCP task.

http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/scp.html

There is also an FTP task.

http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html

So using either one of these, the promotion.xml file could be scheduled 
as a Build step, to FTP or SCP the necessary files over.  The user would 
have control over this and hudson just runs the job on 
build.eclipse.org.  Denis would still get his logs saying who wrote what 
and where, and users would be restricted to there directories that they 
have access rights too.

It involves no Cron job, and would work with Slave instances, and on 
Linux and Windows as well.

Dave