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:

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.)