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

[Leo F. <leo...@ne...>]

Hi andrius,

This is brilliant! Many thanks for all your hard work on not only website and nightly builds, but also a bunch of other things like full eclipse integration, and many helpful discussions and shared coding on zeves integration, Isabelle integration , memory management, section transactions etc...

And all tat whilst doing your PhD!!! Which is well on its way for a great success.

Many congratulations, and thanks for the huge effort on Keeping CZT  ;-)

Best
Leo

On 10 Apr 2013, at 09:43, "Andrius Velykis" <and...@ne...<mailto: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 To avoid long-out-of-date information, maybe its better to provide access to the latest goodies from CZT in the form of nightly builds and website updates.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!

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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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