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Revision as of 15:18, 5 June 2017

Recently Truffle project decided to change its repository structure. Rather than keeping Truffle and its API in its own repository, the project decided to merge the code into a common repository with Graal compiler (currently available here). This was a simple change from the point of view of the code - merging two git repositories into one is a matter of pull and merge. However, a working system isn't just about the code, there are other services around and they may get broken when a code is shuffle this way.

Truffle repository was primarily the API repository. With its own release cycles, evolution rules and special tools associated with it. Most importantly there was TruffleSigtest setup - netbeans:Sigtest tool is something everyone who seriously thinks about API has to include in own workflow. Some parts of the TruffleSigtest rely just on the code - e.g. they still work - it is still possible to execute:

$ mx sigtest --generate
$ mx sigtest --check binary
$ mx sigtest --check all

however other parts of the system (especially the Notification of Daily Changes) are more cloud-like - e.g. they require properly setup jenkins builders to work properly. Obviously they no longer work after the original Truffle repository changed its location. Last Friday I was asked to fix that.