On Mar 8, 2007, at 2:24 AM, Rupert Smith wrote:
Jason, is this likely to be released soon? The reason I ask is because we are about to do a release of the Apache Qpid project and will soon be in the process of resolving our snapshot dependencies. Sorry to harass you, but it'd be nice if we could use this newer version in our relase.
What is the timeline for your Qpid release? There have been a few new additions, like translate-war... and I have been trying to figure out how to make integration tests for this plugin to help ensure the quality of releases, both of which have slowed down the release. But, its unlikly I will have time to make a decent integration testsuite for this any time soon, so I will start the release march now for 1.0-alpha-2.
Completely off topic, are you also working on the Apache Geronimo project?
Yes, I spend most of my time working on Apache Geronimo ;-)
I noticed on the mailing list that you have set up the anthill build for it. I'm trying to convince Qpid to use anthill pro 3 too. Easier for us to follow in Geronimo's footsteps. Would you recomend it?
We are currently using AntHill Pro 3.1 to help us run the J2EE/JavaEE TCK in a distributed fashion. It was a rocky start, but after a little bit of blood, sweat and some help from the nice folks at UrbanCode I've gotten most everything running quite smoothly now. It is a *very* powerful tool, though if you have not used AHP before it is a bit more complicated than many of the other *just-CI* tools out there.
IMO, if you are willing to spend some time to learn/configure it, then you can make AHP do almost anything your build desires, but if you just need a simple CI tool it might be too much.
AHP has been essential to our automated-TCK process and has given us the ability to correlate exact builds to test results, repeat tests on exact builds, and has helped improve the overall reliability of our automated maven2-based builds... and all of which is in a distributed environment. I know of no other tool open-source/ commercial which could have handled that. Granted... I've not used every tool out there... yet ;-)
I did however need to implement a lot of custom glue to get AH to do everything I wanted it to do, as well as work around a few of its limitations. But, I have been trying to provide the UrbanCode folks with as much feedback as possible, so hopefully newer versions of their tool will require slightly less blood/sweat/support to perform the same amazing build magic ;-)
Cheers, --jason --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
