News

All the news on the projects, including release notes, links, and alerts. This information is sorted chronologically.


  • Tagging RC of DPM 1.8.9

    Fasten your seatbelts

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  • DPM Collaboration

    DPM Collaboration During a DPM workshop at LAL (on 5th December 2012), representatives of several countries met to discuss the future of DPM. Those present recognised the importance of DPM and agreed to establish and contribute effort to a DPM Collaboration with the express aim of driving the DPM project forwards after EMI ends on…

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  • How to mark a tag/branch as part of the candidate release

    How to mark a tag/branch as part of the candidate release The basic requirement is that the component, when built, produces a packaged file (.rpm) that contains the version number in its filename. In other words, the package file must be recognizable. Each component can have an SVN directory that acts in a way that…

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  • Using the continuous builds

    How we use the builds The build of the SVN trunk is used to feed our nightly tests and our stable test infrastructure. Its main goal is to produce feedback that is useful for the developers and maintainers of the various components. If you are a developer then you should consider the SVN trunk build…

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  • Continuous Builds

    Continuous Builds The LCGDM software development process is based on the idea of continuous builds. Whenever there is a change to the source code, in any of the components, a build system updates the installable packages in a shared directory. Anyone can install those packages, which represent the trunk release and the candidate release. Our…

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