Nightly deployment

[LorenzoBettini]

@cdietrich I'd like to propose the following next steps now that we have a JIRO job deploying snapshots on Sonatype and a nightly p2 repo:

• disable the old job for nightly deployment, and make the new job the nightly one; the nightly p2 monorepo can be used now for integration tests
• try to make/simulate a milestone (Beta1? or M1): on sonatype, the artifacts will be staged, so unless manually released, they will not be official; the milestone update site would be in the monorepo subdirectory (so not in the official Xtext milestone composite repository).

[szarnekow]

@LorenzoBettini would it interfere with your plans if you or I push the monorepo/main branch to eclipse/xtext/main already?

Subsequently I'd remove old tags and old branches from eclipse/xtext - as long as master is present it'd be a lot larger than the monorepo. So cloning and experiments might be slower.

[LorenzoBettini]

@szarnekow Would that make the monorepo sources "official"? I mean: I should then go on working on that repository, shouldn't I? First, I'd like to merge https://github.com/xtext/xtext-monorepo/tree/lb_issue_11_nightly_deployment, which I've just done. Would the main branch be disconnected from the master branch? If they're disconnected and the main branch is set as the real base branch (see the setting below), I guess cloning will only clone the main branch by default and the separate old master branch will be ignored by default; but I'm not sure about that.

In any case, you can go right ahead: I'll stop working on that until you finished. I've pushed to main all my work.

[cdietrich]

we need to open a ticket with it to change the default branch. but i assume we can "treat" it as such anyway

[LorenzoBettini]

we need to open a ticket with it to change the default branch. but I assume we can "treat" it as such anyway

Yes, but if they are completely separate, the default branch will be cloned by default. I don't remember whether you planned to separate the two branches.

[szarnekow]

The main branch is setup such that is completely disconnected from eclipse/xtext/master such that we can delete all the old commits from eclipse/xtext. That content was previously archived to eclipse/xtext-archive.

[cdietrich]

sebastian has opened https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/2864

[szarnekow]

I mean: I should then go on working on that repository, shouldn't I?

Yes, from this moment on this will avoid an indirection. If feasible please perform the next steps directly in eclipse/xtext

[cdietrich]

@LorenzoBettini will you update the jobs to consume from there?

[LorenzoBettini]

@LorenzoBettini will you update the jobs to consume from there?

I've already updated this one https://ci.eclipse.org/xtext/view/Xtext-release/job/xtext-monorepo-full-deploy-nightly

Now we should create another multibranch pipeline job I guess? Should I do that right now? Since the Jenkinsfile is not present in the current master it should be safe to do so.

I would have expected that GitHub Actions workflow would have started on https://github.com/eclipse/xtext even if not on the default branch... let's see... maybe it takes some time or simply the default branch must be first updated.

[cdietrich]

have no idea. i assume it will work with any branch

[LorenzoBettini]

have no idea. i assume it will work with any branch

I meant: it should not try to build all the current branches. It should build only the ones with a Jenkinsfile. Let's try.

[cdietrich]

yes so we might delay until we have gotten rid of the other branches. side question: you did not setup/cleanup the other target platform yet correct?

[LorenzoBettini]

@cdietrich I tried to create the multibranch job:

It had tried to build other branches because I guess there was a Jenkinsfile there. I stopped all those builds but the build for main.

Should I disable the multiline job for the moment?

[cdietrich]

yes

[LorenzoBettini]

OK, I disabled that for the moment. The job for main can go on for the moment. I checked the other jobs that started and I confirm that I aborted them before they did any damage ;)

[LorenzoBettini]

This one https://ci.eclipse.org/xtext/view/Xtext-release/job/xtext-monorepo-full-deploy-nightly which is currently running is still publishing the nightly update site on https://download.eclipse.org/modeling/tmf/xtext/monorepo/updates/nightly/

[LorenzoBettini]

side question: you did not setup/cleanup the other target platform yet correct?

Sorry, I forgot to answer this one: no, I haven't.

[LorenzoBettini]

I guess cloning will only clone the main branch by default and the separate old master branch will be ignored by default; but I'm not sure about that.

I see that now main is the default branch. Unfortunately, cloning still clones everything even the old master and its huge history.