Hi Barrie, > Whether its Jenkins, or a developer, you've still pushed a release > that could break the build. > > This is where you need some isolation available to your workflow.
Agreed! However, for Fay's stated requirement, it may be sufficient to have a broken master branch as long as the latest deployed SNAPSHOT is not broken, since he stated: > Currently my pain is our developer would deploy broken bytecode to our > dev repository and broken others work. Regards, Curtis On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Barrie Treloar <baerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 October 2014 08:38, Curtis Rueden <ctrue...@wisc.edu> wrote: > > > Hi Fay, > > > > > Could i define a intermediate repository, everytime they deploy, > > > jenkins will verify it. > > > > Why not have Jenkins do your deploys? I.e.: make it so that only Jenkins > > has deploy permission to your remote repository. So your devs can no > longer > > run "mvn deploy" from the CLI and expect it to work, but instead just > push > > to master (or whatever integration branch) and then Jenkins runs the > build. > > > > Once Jenkins does your deploys, you can set up your jobs to test for more > > stringent conditions before actually doing the deploy. E.g.: > > > > $ git clean -fdx > > $ mvn clean install > > $ bin/verify-artifacts.sh > > $ mvn deploy > > > > And "verify-artifacts.sh" does whatever further programmatic testing you > > need. > > > > OTOH, in many cases, you don't need a shell script -- often times, you > can > > get what you need using Maven plugins like Surefire, Failsafe, and > > Enforcer. If you go that route, it might be enough so that devs running > > "mvn deploy" won't deploy bad stuff to the repo by default (unless they > are > > aggressive enough to run e.g. "mvn -DskipTests deploy" which would be > > pretty bold). > > > > Regards, > > Curtis > > > Whether its Jenkins, or a developer, you've still pushed a release that > could break the build. > > This is where you need some isolation available to your workflow. > > Stuff breaks - it happens, Fay needs to determine how they want to deal > with it. >
