Re: [CZT-Devel] New CZT website and nightly builds

[Mark U. <ma...@cs...>]

Andrius,

Congratulations on getting these nightly beta versions pushed out.
Yes, we should definitely aim to get v2.0 out this year, to celebrate the
10th anniversary.  :-)

The new website looks really nice - much more modern!

I'm looking forward to trying out the new Eclipse features...

Mark



On 10 April 2013 18:43, Andrius Velykis <and...@ne...>wrote:

> Hi CZT developers,
>
> I wanted to give some quick updates about the new CZT website and nightly
> CZT builds.
>
> Yesterday night I have pushed the new CZT website live:
> http://czt.sourceforge.net
> It is generated and updated automatically every night from the CZT source.
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Also, the CZT repository is built every night and all the build results
> are automatically uploaded to the SourceForge release system (check out
> `/nightly` subdirectories in the downloads:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/czt/files/). These include the classic
> `czt.jar` as well as new Eclipse-based CZT IDE, CZT Eclipse update site and
> CZT jEdit plugins. Furthermore, the new CZT release will eventually be
> available in Maven Central, and the nightly -SNAPSHOT builds are currently
> pushed to Sonatype OSS Maven repo.
>
>
> ## The why and how
>
> We are still "pending" on the new release, but there are quite some
> updates and tools in CZT that users may want to try. To accommodate that
> and avoid sitting on the updates for years, I thought we should transition
> into a more agile deployment. To avoid long-out-of-date information, maybe
> its better to provide access to the latest goodies from CZT in the form of
> nightly builds and website updates.
>
> We have a build server running here at Newcastle that performs nightly CZT
> builds (it is an internal one and I doubt it will be accessible from
> outside). The build process pushes nightly releases and website during the
> build as explained above.
>
> To allow that, I have upgraded CZT Maven builds so that everything should
> go through with standard Maven commands without too much. This includes
> building Eclipse plugins/products via Maven and using Maven site for CZT
> website. I will try to add some page on "how to release" eventually..
>
>
> ## Contributing
>
> One of the things holding up the new release is the lack of documentation.
> We still need to document things that have been added since the last
> release, and parts of the website are quite raw..
>
> In addition to that, however, I would like to encourage contributing to
> CZT documentation and website. Some parts of the website have been updated,
> but others still have just the minimal information. You can update the main
> project pages by editing README.md files in each project directory (this
> becomes index.html in most cases during site generation). Otherwise the CZT
> website tries to follow standard Maven site conventions: edit/add the files
> in `src/site` subdirectory of each project. The *.md files are written in
> Markdown :)
>
> When you push the changes to Git, they will become part of the website the
> next day!
>
> ---
>
> By the way, Maven tells me that this year is the 10 year anniversary for
> CZT: <inceptionYear>2003</inceptionYear>? Congratulations everyone! It
> should be a good opportunity to get CZT 2.0 out of the door :)
>
>
> Best regards,
> Andrius
>
>
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