Re: Gump, centipede, maven, etc...

Sam Ruby wrote:

> Over the last few days, I've gotten a greater percentage of the gump 
> run to be attempted.  And the work that I did would not have been 
> practical without the recent efforts of Stefan and Peter.  While this 
> is clearly a labor of love on my and other's parts, relying us to do 
> this across all ASF projects (even only the Java ones) simply does not 
> scale.
>
> I believe that the information that a pure bootstrapping approach 
> provides is quite valuable.  Here are a sample of current failures:
>
> http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/jakarta-turbine-jcs.html
> http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/jakarta-turbine-stratum.html
> http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/commons-jelly.html
> http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/jakarta-james.html
> http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/krysalis-ruper.html
>
> For this information to be available on a more consistent and timely 
> basis, there needs to be a way for the information necessary to do a 
> bootstrapped build to be actively maintained.  This information may 
> originate from a maven project descriptor, or from a unified 
> gump/centipede/etc descriptor.
>
> Furthermore, the code that actually runs the build (be it maven or 
> cent) needs to be aware of the bootstrapped versions of dependencies 
> and substitute them in place of the ones that the developer may have 
> declared.
>
> I don't know how to get this dones across all of the various 
> codebases, but I am willing to do my part.  Are there maven and/or 
> centipede developers out there who share this goal? 

I will comit to getting the centipede stuff to work.

>
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
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