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James Wing commented on NIFI-2115:
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Thinking over Joe's comments and reviewing the release procedure, there are at
least four scenarios this code should address (but maybe not equally):
1. Build binaries from local git repo
2. Build from source not prepared by release process
3. Release build that generates a source bundle from a local git repo
4. Build convenience binaries from the release source bundle
My initial implementation only really supports 1 and maybe 2, but I missed the
release steps 3 and 4. Some options for the release process:
A. Ignore the SCM/Git properties in the source release. Formal releases also
include Tag, such as {{nifi-0.6.1-RC2}}, which may be specific enough for our
purpose here.
B. Generate a properties file with commit and branch information as part of the
source release, then read and apply this info in the source build.
I will include Tag in the about information set, since that's easily available
and relevant. I am working on a sample process for B, hopefully without
requiring any changes to the release checklist or abusing Maven too severely.
> Enhanced About Box Version Information
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>
> Key: NIFI-2115
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2115
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core UI, Tools and Build
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: James Wing
> Assignee: James Wing
> Priority: Minor
>
> The UI's About dialog and underlying API provide the version of NiFi, like
> "0.7.0-SNAPSHOT". For many bug reports and troubleshooting requests, this is
> not very precise, especially around rapidly changing code or
> platform-dependent behavior. It would help if NiFi captured and displayed
> additional information:
> * NiFi build commit hash
> * NiFi build branch
> * NiFi build date/time
> * Java Version
> * Java Vendor (Oracle, OpenJDK)
> * OS
> Then a simple copy/paste from the about box would provide very specific
> information about a particular NiFi installation and which code it was
> derived from.
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