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From Developer to Download: A Tour of the Eclipse Platform Build Factory

Kim Moir (IBM Canada) and Denis Roy (Eclipse Foundation)

Developer Track · Long Talk

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Wednesday, 9:45, 45 minutes | Ballroom CD   Add to your calendariCal

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This talk will provide a tour of the Eclipse platform build process from a release engineer's perspective. It will include an overview of the network, hardware and software configuration used in the context of running PDE Build, JUnit and performance test scripts. We will discuss the procedure we follow to promote valid performance test results. This talk also covers how we coordinate with the webmaster at eclipse.org in publishing our builds, milestones and releases.

Audience: Build teams

  • Platform Build Land topography
  • Working with our developers
  • Description of the end-to-end process with emphasis on network, hardware and software configuration
  • Overview of a build machine configuration
  • Configuration of JUnit test machines and Performance test machines
  • How to use the templates in the releng projects to setup a test infrastructure for your build environment
  • Build bloopers and how to avoid them
  • Coordinating with eclipse.org webmasters for builds, milestones and releases
  • Distributing releases to millions of users
  • FAQ
  • Kim Moir obtained a Bachelor of Business Adminstration from Acadia University in 1994. Upon entering the real world, she discovered that tweaking operating systems and open source software was much more fun. She was the system administrator for eclipse.org until she joined the Eclipse Platform Release Engineering team in 2003. Kim works for IBM Rational Software in the Ottawa Lab.

    Denis is the Manager of IT at the Eclipse Foundation. Better known as one of the webmasters@eclipse.org, he interacts with most of the Eclipse project teams in providing the infrastructure they need. Denis is a fan of Open Source Software, uses Linux, Apache, PHP and Eclipse daily, and is a superstar programmer in his own mind.




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