Re: Discussion: continuous deployment was: Discussion: migrating from Ant to Gradle

2014-08-21 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
Hi Jacopo, One of the ideas we suggest is to introduce gradle alongside ant at the top level directory (build.gradle next to build.xml) and replace some of the scripts that currently exist under /tools with tasks and projects in gradle (e.g. mergefromtrunk.sh). It is also quite trivial to design t

Re: Discussion: continuous deployment was: Discussion: migrating from Ant to Gradle

2014-08-20 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
What you describe is (I guess) essentially this: https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows#!workflow-gitflow and I know it (we have projects following this pattern) and it works pretty well; this is *not* the workflow that OFBiz community is currently implementing. Theres is no right or wrong wor

Re: Discussion: continuous deployment was: Discussion: migrating from Ant to Gradle

2014-08-20 Thread Adrian Crum
I have been a member of this community for 10 years, and I don't agree that "Up to now the trunk was always very stable." The trunk has always been the bleeding edge of OFBiz development and design - and that is the reason we have release branches. Adrian Crum Sandglass Software www.sandglass-

Discussion: continuous deployment was: Discussion: migrating from Ant to Gradle

2014-08-20 Thread Hans Bakker
Jacopo, Sorry to react on your comment at the end of your post below. May i ask you to study continuous deployment? Up to now the trunk was always very stable. Once in a while some problems, but they never lasted more than a couple of days. At AntWebsystems we are supporting continuous deplo