thanks Emmanuel, I knew it was hard and sorry being away Kiran Ayyagari
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Pfewww... It took me more than one day to stabilize the trunk again. > > Why so long ? Simple : > - I don't have my fast MBP, and I had to restore my dev env on 2 machines > (at home and at office). That only is a painful and slow process, with > eclipse, java, maven, subclipse installation (not to mention an Ubuntu > update) > - on those two machines, compiling the full server takes more than 20 > minutes... > - At first, I thought I could find the issue by debugging the code. How vain > is this ... But certainly cost half a day ! > - I then had to find the revision that was working. It took me something > like 10 reverts and full builds to get this revision, and I had to go back > 30 revisions, then 10 revs forward. > - Again, I tried to take a shortcut by moving 10 revs forward, and fix the > issue. Vain, I said, vain... > - so back to painful revert and moving forward one revision after the other > one, and removing what was wrong. > > At the end, I was bale to find what was wrong, and to keep it out of our > path : > - first a small issue with conccurent test (taht was really easy to find and > fix) > - second a brutal modification done by me that imapcted the whole server > with many strange errors (basically, I removed the AlteredEntry field from > the ModificationOperationContext class, as we already have a ModifiedEntry > in an abstract Class. bad bad move... > > Anyway, this is it ! > > let's move forward ! > (btw, my MBP is just ready, I have to go back and get it.) > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com >
