Re: [platform-releng-dev] Currrent build notes are important to consumin

[Kim Moir <Kim_Moir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John has suggested moving the build
notes to  a centralized location in the org.eclipse.releng project.
 This would solve several issues with the current way that build notes
are generated.  For instance

-Some teams only have one build
note and store it in a single plugin.  All committers on the team
don't necessarily have commit rights to update this plugin.
-If you update the build notes but not the content of the plugin itself,
 the qualifier of this plugin will change on the next build submission.
 This can cause versioning issues.

I've opened a bug regarding this suggested
change

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=170545

Please append any suggestions you may
have regarding reorganizing the  build notes to this bug. 

Kim

Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>Since M2, the releng tool includes a checkbox
to update your build notes
when you update your map files so it's very a painless process :-)
There are reported usability problems which makes it impossible to use
the
tool, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=158525.

Dani


                    
                     
                     
          
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Releng has an open bug regarding the lack of current information in the
build notes for many components that contribute to the SDK.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=142909

Recently, it was updated with the following comment that I thought I would
pass on to the team.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=142909#c3


### A friendly reminder about current state ###

I was trying to understand which changes are in the latest 3.2.2
maintenance
and 3.3M4 builds, and still see the problems described above.

I'm responsible to decide which Eclipse build should be considered as
"default"
for development and deployed in the lab or for customers and it is
impossible
or very hard to decide because of incomplete build notes.

It is also very hard to evangelize new Eclipse builds without reliable
arguments (especially in the company with strict quality policy)...

Please please, spread the importance of good build notes to the teams which
are
still not following excellent example of jdt.core team (I *love* their
build
notes!!!).


Since M2, the releng tool includes a checkbox to update your build notes
when you update your map files so it's very a painless process :-)

See the "Releng Tools" section of the 3.3M2 Release notes for
more
information

 http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.3
M2-200609220010/eclipse-news-M2.html

thanks,
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