Develocity integration

[ribafish]

As one of the impactful Eclipse projects, we (the Develocity Solutions team) would like to invite you to be a part of the Eclipse Develocity evaluation initiative.

This improvement will enhance the functionality of the Open VSX server build by publishing build scans to develocity-staging.eclipse.org, hosted by the Eclipse Foundation and run in partnership between the Eclipse Foundation and Gradle. This Develocity is freely available for use by the Eclipse Open VSX project and all other Eclipse projects.

On this Develocity instance, the Eclipse Open VSX server will have access not only to all of the published build scans but also to other aggregate data features such as:

• Dashboards to view all historical build scans, along with performance trends over time
• Build failure analytics for enhanced investigation and diagnosis of build failures
• Test failure analytics to better understand trends and causes around slow, failing, and flaky tests

This will also enable you to (optionally) use build time optimization features, such as build caching and Predictive Test Selection.

More information can be read in the Eclipse announcement.

IMPORTANT: If your project is interested in being a part of this initiative, please reach out to Eclipse infra by filling out a helpdesk ticket to get the CI setup and credentials.

[amvanbaren]

@kineticsquid Thoughts?

[ribafish]

I've also created a draft PR #1091. If you decide to participate, I'll convert it to a real one once the CI setup is completed by Eclipse infra.

In the meantime, here is an example of a build scan showing savings from build cache, and a build scan showing all the tasks being executed.

[kineticsquid]

@amvanbaren I don't know enough about Develocity to have a confident opinion. A quick read of the product overviews indicates improved build and automated test efficiency. I'm not sure how much that would mean to us. I can see Glassfish on the Eclipse dashboard, it'd be a good idea to talk to them. Maybe a demo from @ribafish could help us decide.

[amvanbaren]

I don't know enough about Develocity to have a confident opinion.

Me neither. A demo could be helpful.

[ribafish]

@kineticsquid @amvanbaren There is a presentation scheduled for February 6 @ 16.00 CET co-hosted by Sebastien from Eclipse, where I'll do a short live demo as well.

There is also some more information about Develocity here. Luckily, the Eclipse instance develocity-staging.eclipse.org is already available, so you can explore scans on a live instance yourself already. Since you are already using local build cache when running builds, the change to also enable remote build cache is very simple, but with great effects for CI build times, as a build that gets everything from cache completes in only 4s, instead of 2m 50s.