help.eclipse.org not rendering content if help bundles have unmet dependencies

[jonahgraham]

Is it possible to get the metadata/log for the running infocentre on help.eclipse.org? The rest of this is the why.

In eclipse-cdt/cdt#1170 it is noted that some help is missing from help.eclipse.org.

The bundle in question is included in https://ci.eclipse.org/simrel/view/infocenter/job/simrel.create_and_publish_infocenter_pipeline/ as can be seen in the build output. However the corresponding help is missing from the website.

I believe this is because the algorithm for help.eclipse.org is to use only the bundles with org.eclipse.help.toc in the plugin.xml and then run the info center app on those bundles (here)

Some of the CDT bundles mix help and non-help in the same bundle, which means that the bundles don't resolve when running for help.eclipse.org.

The solution, on CDT's end, is to remove the unneeded dependencies listed here which is in progress.

I raise this issue as a place to highlight this issue, but also to try to resolve it more globally by identifying the bundles that fail to resolve.

[fredg02]

Just to capture this for the public:

• You should be able to test this locally by slightly modifying the createInfoCenter.sh script.
• We should also be able to run the build job on the milestone/RC.
• As for the metadata/log. I do not see any related errors in the default pod log, but there might be other logs somewhere.

[jonahgraham]

The immediate problem of some of CDT's help not being included in SimRel's help is now resolved eclipse-cdt/cdt#1170 (comment)

I had hoped to look at the wider problem here, but I have not had a chance to look at it.