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From: Marcel Offermans <marcel.offermans@luminis.nl>
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Subject: Towards a new release and baselining support...
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:17:30 +0100
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Hey guys,

As you all know, a lot of things have happened recently within the ACE =
project. We=92ve rewritten the complete management agent, added quite a =
few features to the server and squashed bugs. With all of this work done =
I feel we should start working towards a new release now, but I=92d like =
to get everbody=92s opinion and check if there are things we forgot =
about that really need to make it into a new release.

One thing I would like to do is to upgrade to the latest Bndtools 2.2.2 =
version and enable support for baselining. Baselining will give us a lot =
of tool support to ensure our code (bundles and exported packages) is =
semantically versioned. To leverage baselining support there are a =
couple of things we need to do:

 * We need the to start putting @ProviderType and @ConsumerType =
annotations on all our APIs. In fact, we need to =93retrofit=94 this to =
our 1.0.0 release to ensure the baselining works correctly. These =
annotations are not magically available, but we can add them to the =
global build path (cnf/ext/defaults.bnd).

 * We need to keep a copy of all released bundles (the latest version of =
each) in a repository to baseline against. Because we don=92t want our =
build to break when we=92re off-line I propose we put them in a local =
repository. We probably need to build those artifacts with the Eclipse =
compiler to prevent problems that will otherwise occur because of =
differences between ecj and javac so: checkout with Eclipse, build, =
collect all bundles from "generated" folders and publish them into the =
releaserepo in cnf. We also want to add them to the -deps artifact so =
people can easily get started with a release with baselining enabled.

If anybody else has input, speak up! :) WDYT?

Greetings, Marcel