> On 23 Mar 2016, at 12:33, Marius Dumitru Florea 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi devs,
>> 
>> I’ve been thinking about how to improve our release process regarding the
>> backward compat checks (we were using clirr for this and now revapi).
>> 
>> In short the idea is:
>> 
>> * Store the revapi config (containing the list of breakages to ignore) in
>> a wiki page on xwiki.org, associated with a given release note. For
>> example in
>> ReleaseNotes.BackwardCompatibilityForXWiki${xwiki.version.major}${xwiki.version.minor}
>> (using
>> http://www.mojohaus.org/build-helper-maven-plugin/parse-version-mojo.html)
>> * Configure our build to download that json file and store it in target/
>> for revapi, see
>> https://github.com/revapi/revapi/issues/31#issuecomment-200286810
>> 
> 
> 
>> * Work on making it not fail the build when offline (see
>> https://github.com/revapi/revapi/issues/31#issuecomment-200286810)
>> 
> 
> download-maven-plugin is caching the downloaded files by default (I'm using
> it to download the CKEditor sources only once). I guess we won't be able to
> use this feature because the revapi config can be modified multiple times
> during a release dev. Unless we modify the URL in the pom whenever we
> modify the wiki page (instead of modifying the URL only after each release).

Yes this is why on 
https://github.com/revapi/revapi/issues/31#issuecomment-200286810 I have:

<skip>${xwiki.revapi.offline}</skip>
 <skipCache>${xwiki.revapi.cache}</skipCache>

By default it’s set to “true”. The idea is to use true when in offline mode.

ATM this can be done with this: mvn clean install … -Dxwiki.revapi.offline=true 
-Dxwiki.revapi.cache=true

I’m trying to find ways to do that automatically when maven is in offline mode 
so that running the following would be enough: mvn clean install -o

See https://twitter.com/vmassol/status/712585195581521920

> * Write some groovy script in the release notes template page to
>> automatically generate the “API Breakage” section from the parsed json from
>> ReleaseNotes.BackwardCompatibilityForXWiki${xwiki.version.major}${xwiki.version.minor}
>> 
>> WDYT?
>> 
> 
> Sound good. I'm only worried about the offline build issue.

Yep, me too. Being offline is not going to be an issue since I don’t believe we 
need to run revapi when offline most of the time and with the cached file it 
would work most of the time too.

However I’m more worried about the times when 
- xwiki.org is down. 
- when the user is behind a proxy

However with the “failOnError” property from 
https://github.com/maven-download-plugin/maven-download-plugin/issues/48 that 
we could set to false, we should be able to make it work. Of course, we’ll need 
to also skip the revapi plugin when the config file isn’t present.

All in all it would be much easier if revapi were to implement 
https://github.com/revapi/revapi/issues/31 and I don’t think it’s too difficult 
to do.

So in conclusion I still need to figure out a few little details but it looks 
like this could improve a lot our RM work since there wouldn’t be anything to 
do from the RM POV :)

Thanks
-Vincent

> Thanks,
> Marius
> 
> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
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