Much ado about scripting, Linux & Eclipse: card subject to change

2012-06-19

Open Source is Painless (Theme from JBDS)

With JBDS 5.0.0.CR1 and JBoss Tools 3.3.0.CR1 out, and GA/Final releases just around the corner, it's high time for a new song.

Hell's bells, it's been over 3 years since my last music-related post.

The idea for doing this song came after spending a day creating a diagram showing how JBoss Tools and Developer Studio are built, followed by myarboro's reaction to the complexity.

Diagram by Dia

Through early morning mail I see
Visions of JIRAs for me
Build jobs red unexpectedly
I realize and I can see...

That Open Source is painless
Even with non-stop changes
And yet we give all this away for free

The game of rel-eng's hard to play
We struggle through it anyway
A business card I'll never lay
Deprecated: it's LinkedIn's day

Jenkins builds are painless
They track so many changes
And ever onward moves complexity

The use of Git trumps SVN
But migrating's hard to begin
When your code base is not so slim
The pain grows stronger... bear & grin

Using github's painless
Pull/push requests for changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

A Turing test once asked of me
To answer questions that are key
'To use Tycho or PDE?'
And I replied 'Not PDE!'

Releng'ing is painless
It is a game of changes
And still we give all this away for free
And you can do the same thing if you please...

Johnny Mandel & Mike Altman - Suicide is Painless (Theme from M.A.S.H.)

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