Document differences to forks

lesfurets / partial-build-plugin

A maven plugin for partially building multi-module projects based on changes in the Git repository.

MIT License

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Document differences to forks #17

Closed maxcapraro closed 6 years ago

maxcapraro commented 6 years ago

Hi there,

Your plugin is exactly what I (and potentially others) need. To me the differences between the related (read: forked from) projects is unclear:

lesfurets/partial-build-plugin (this project)
ozangunalp/gitflow-incremental-builder
vackosar/gitflow-incremental-builder

I suggest we add to the README.md:

Explicit statement that this software is intended to be used in production (i.e. not a fork simply created to play around with it)
Discuss on why users should use this fork instead of one of the others

Which brings me to the opening question: What does this fork make different than the others?

Best, Max

dubreuia commented 6 years ago

Hey @maxcapraro,

Thank you for your interest in the plugin. The history is as follow: @ozangunalp forked vackosar/gitflow-incremental-builder plugin in his github space ozangunalp/gitflow-incremental-builder, then he adapted it for our production usage at LesFurets. I'm pretty sure the first two are unmaintained (and unused?).

As far as functionalities are concerned, we added options to the original plugin, corrected bugs, wrote documentation (README), etc. Most development was done by @ozangunalp so I'll let him comment on this.

I'll be happy to assist if documentation is missing, but I feel like the README is pretty good.

Cheers, Alex

maxcapraro commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply and the overview, @dubreuia !

I feel like the README is pretty good.

I agree: Solid README! My point was merely that the README would be one option do describe the relationship to the other projects. However, now that my questoin is answered here, I guess there is no need for additional information there.

I'm pretty sure the first two are unmaintained (and unused?).

Some development activity. But yeah, not much.

ozangunalp commented 6 years ago

Hi @maxcapraro,

Sorry for the late response. I'd be happy to respond to your questions if you have any.

At Lesfurets we are using the plugin to optimize our build/release process and build some "side-car" projects only when it is necessary.

I'm very much interested to learn your use case, why you were interested, if it responded to needs and if you are actually using it at your organization.

Cheers

maxcapraro commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the insights, you two! I'll happy to share with how we use your SW, once we incorporated it in our build process :)

ozangunalp commented 6 years ago

Closing this as it was a question