On 2010-01-01, at 5:43 PM, Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote: > Hi Jason, > >>> Of course not... >>> >> But we can, and will, hook into tests that people create. Benjamin has >> created and improved the core set of plugin > > ITs that we have and recently made an appeal on the Mojo > > list to try and get people to do the same. > Ah...interesting... > > > If plugin projects follow the same pattern that we have > > for our core plugins then we can integrate those into the > > grid and proactively find problems. > May be i oversight something or didn't found it...is the "pattern" documented > in some place ? Or do you mean the pages about "plugin-testing.html" > (maven-invoker-plugin) from the maven.apache.org site area (Plugin > Development)...? >
I would look at our core plugin as examples. Look at the use of the invoker plugin as the basis in the maven-compiler-plugin. It would certainly be great to have that codified and documented. It's the practice that has emerged as the de facto standard way for testing plugins. >> If every Maven plugin project created consistent ITs > > it would be quite easy to spin up some EC2 instances > > and run versions of Maven over all of them. > > It is not outside the realm of possibility to test the > > entire Maven ecosystem of plugins if we can get > > the individual projects to create ITs and register > > them somehow. > ... >> I think ideally we should try to register the plugin > > projects somewhere and the grid and try to help projects > > do the testing where necessary. > What about starting in the wiki with a separate "Compatibility Matrix" (many > plugins exist already their on the compatibility notes page) as a first > pragmatic way...and see how it works... > Sure. > and with that an area for registering has been created as well...whatever > this will mean... I think if we get plugins to add some metadata to artifacts deployed we can find them by scanning the repository and make a list. Would be more accurate then trying to manually maintain the information. But we can start with the wiki. > > > > Someone should really be able to look at the grid and see > > if things are working for their plugin. > > > > Not sure what the best way is to get this to happen > > but it would be cool. > So do i, but i would suggest to start with a wiki page... > and make it known to the dev lists on maven.apache.org and of course on > codehaus as well....but based on the above mentioned i assume that the > success leaves to be desired... > > > Kind regards > Karl Heinz Marbaise > -- > SoftwareEntwicklung Beratung Schulung Tel.: +49 (0) 2405 / 415 893 > Dipl.Ing.(FH) Karl Heinz Marbaise ICQ#: 135949029 > Hauptstrasse 177 USt.IdNr: DE191347579 > 52146 Würselen http://www.soebes.de > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
