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Completed Priority Locked CreatedDate CompletedDate Assignee Name
T M F 1212614987736 sherriff * Add BCC as an open source project at java.net or codehaus.
T M F 1212614991042 sherriff * Set up SVN repo and proper backup.

QA

  • Improve Plexus wiring
  • Improve JPOX handling
  • Write proper unit and integration tests for the existing code

Support for updates

The set of derived projects must be updated whenever the input list or the dependencies of the original project are changed. Otherwise the projects would have to be deleted and re-added to Continuum whenever any of these changes occurred.

We anticipated the need for updates, so the updateDerivedProjects() method in Default- DerivedProjectManager already support adding new derived projects according to the list of dependencies that is sent as parameter. updateDerivedProjects() should also remove derived projects that are no longer relevant. This method can then be used to update the project list whenever the input list is changed. The steps needed are thus;

  • Extend updateDerivedProjects() to remove derived projects that no longer are relevant.

  • Call updateDerivedProjects() every time the input list is changed.

Configuration in a separate xml file

  • Input list

  • All combinations or just dependencies with newer version that the original dependency

Improve usability

  • Tactics to improve navigation and make the relationship between original project and its derived variants more explicit:
    • Use a tree structure on the project summary page, where each original project is a top-level node, with its derived projects are children.
    • Add a link to the original project in each of the derived projects and a list of links to the derived projects to the original project.
    • Add a link to the original dependency in the derived dependencies.

Improve performance

Bulding and integration are performance intensive activities. This indicate that it can be beneficial to evaluate tactics that make the implementation more efficient. An effective tactic is to reduce the number of derived projects that is actually added or built. We suggest to make it possible for the user to

  • disable our suggested extension for certain projects.

  • exclude or remove combinations of dependencies, to support that some combinations of dependencies may be irrelevant in the user's context.

Support for these scenarios allows the user to choose which projects to build and how extensive and how resource intensive the building will be. Available resources can thus be spent where there is most to gain.