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Signed-off-by: nickboldt <nboldt@redhat.com>
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+# Eclipse Data Tools #
+
+As of January 2018, Eclipse Data Tools (DTP) is now build with Maven 3.5 & Tycho 1.0.
+
+
+## Building locally ##
+
+First, fetch the code:
+
+ git clone ssh://{YOUR-ECLIPSE-USER}@git.eclipse.org:29418/datatools/org.eclipse.datatools
+
+or
+
+ git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/datatools/org.eclipse.datatools.git/
+
+then
+
+ cd org.eclipse.datatools
+
+To build:
+
+ mvn clean install
+
+To build without tests:
+
+ mvn clean install -DskipTests
+
+
+## Contributions ##
+
+To contribute, submit a gerrit request against this repo:
+
+http://git.eclipse.org/c/datatools/org.eclipse.datatools.git/
+
+You can then see your submitted requests here:
+
+https://git.eclipse.org/r/
+
+
+## Continuous Builds ##
+
+The master branch is currently built here:
+
+https://hudson.eclipse.org/datatools/job/org.eclipse.datatools_master/
+
+Therefore the latest CI build can be found here:
+
+https://hudson.eclipse.org/datatools/job/org.eclipse.datatools_master/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/site/target/
+
+
+## Deprecated Code
+
+Note that this repo is now the combination of the other 18 org.eclipse.datatools.\*.git repos[1], which means the other repos are deprecated. Should you want to run the old Ant-based build, check out the 19 repos and then run the build in org.eclipse.datatools, from the DTP_1_14_1_Release tag, not from the master branch.
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+
+[1] http://git.eclipse.org/c/datatools/
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+Eclipse Data Tools Project
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