[wtp-releng] Question on Test git repositories

[David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a particular reason that the tests have been put into their own 
repositories?

This seems to go against the way every other project at eclipse has 
migrated to git.

For one thing this would seem to complicate the build, especially if one 
wanted to leverage the CBI infrastructure.  You now have to do a two 
stage build if doing Continuous Integration.  One to build the 
artifacts, and then another to build the tests and run them against the 
artifact.

In the XSL project we were using Maven and Tycho to build things from a 
CI point of view.  This allowed for a simple build of running the tests 
and the code together, by just doing: mvn clean install.

As it is now, this makes it a bit more difficult, and also introduces 
the possibility that the tests won't be run.

I see that other WTP projects are setup the same way.

Dave