Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (375 mails)

[Klaas Freitag <freitag@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/suse/appinfo.html?csaid=DFC9A170A95499CD
>
> Nice to hear! :-)
Yes, that's great :)

> > Now I just want to gather users' expectations to this project. What
> > would you like to see when using Build-Service in Eclipse? Thanks a
> > lot!
>
> Here some use cases that come to my mind:
>
> - Add/Change packages
I think Changing packages is a key thing. That means knowing the important
file formats like tarballs, specs, dsc's etc. and offering editors for them,
maybe on the fly checks on syntax etc. where applicable.
- Create package source links 

>   - Edit/Create package Templates
Do you think about kind of "personal" Package Templates? Or general BS
templates? If the latter, I don't think they should be really editable
in Eclipse but somehow downloadable and available in the Eclipseclient
on new package creation. However we do not have too much about templates 
yet, so this is not high priority.

> - Add/Change projects
Again here Editing as a key thing, similar to what I wrote about packages
above. Additionally the client could assist for example on creating a 
metapackage as describecd for example on 
http://en.opensuse.org/Meta_Packages/ISV and other project specific things.

- Create submit requests

>   - Edit/Create project Templates
> - Add a "New Buildservice Package/Projekt" Workflow
Again, these two seem to depend on templates.

> - Edit specfiles and debian/* files using eclipse and upload them to the
>   buildservice automatically
Directly after editing or on a "Sync with BS" command?

>   - could be achieved in using/integrating existing technology, e.g.
>     https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/eclipse-rpm-editor
> - monitor build status
Yes, important and can be quite eye-candy and thus a real benefit :)

> - download (and maybe even deploy package(s))
Deploying is IMO a very interesting thing, we do not have that in other
clients IMO. Can you elaborate a bit what is important there from a 
ISV s POV?

> More advanced:
>
> - Add a new view similar to the CVS Browser to be able to browse
>   projects/packages on the buildservice and download them with rightclick
Also Browsing by tags would be nice.

> Btw.: on
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/suse/appinfo.html?csaid=DFC9A170A95499CD
> you wrote, that the eclipse integration would depend on osc. I do not
> think, that this would be a good approach. An eclipse plugin should work
> out-of-the-box without installing additional software, IMHO.
Agreed. OTOH osc evolves to be a cool python lib that eases client development
a lot. But probably in the Eclipse case native Java is probably better. I hope
there are enough usefull java tools to make that easy.
> For internal purposes I started writing a java client for the buildservice
> to be able to upload, download and query the buildservice from within
> ant-tasks, that are integrated into CruiseControl¹.
>
> Maybe we could combine our work and create a java client library for the
> buildservice.
Cool :)

Klaas


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Klaas Freitag                              Architect OPS/IPD
                        SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg
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