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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Major
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Platform: All, OS: All
Because maven2 jobs have nested module list, it makes it hard for people to find
the download permalinks. The download links have an interesting characteristics
that people who are primarily interested in downloading artifacts tend to be
those who are unfamiliar with Hudson, so it justfies giving it a little more
visibility.
The trick is to narrow down the list of artifacts to be displayed there. Needs
some experiments.
For me displaying a link to the latest artifacts is very important, whether the job has passed or failed, because we can decide to release even with failures (for example the build may pass but a test may fail - but its the test that could be at fault, in which case we would release). Releasing is a judgement call, not a computer based binary decision.
In case this is not clear, we use Jenkins to build the software (which consist of hundreds of executables) and test the software. It could build correctly, but some tests may fail. We cannot hold a release back simply because a minor test has failed on one of the executables. So a link to the latest artifacts is useful.