[Hawkular-dev] Importing JBoss BoMs to Hawkular Parent

[Peter Palaga]

Sorry, I have sent this prematurely, but it was only my signature 
missing there -- Peter


On 02/16/2015 02:37 PM, Peter Palaga wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> was there any discussion (that I may have missed during my PTO) around
> importing the jboss-javaee-7.0-with-all to parent? Could you please
> justify the idea once again for me?
>
> I must say I'd veto the change if I was at work. Here is why:
>
> (1) Tying to WildFly only. The change might be understood like this. I
> am not sure this was your intention, but please consider that importing
> another similar BoM (say EAP BoM) in paralel would in fact be extremely
> impractical, because of version conflicts.
>
> (2) Pulling in many artifacts we do not use, do not need, some of them
> maybe being implicitly unwanted ones. But having them in parent is
> actually legalizing them without any discussion. That is especially
> dangerous.
>
> (3) "Political" dependence on WildFly. WildFly may do changes at any
> time in their BoMs that may have bad consequences in Hawkular.
>
> The bottom line is that it would be much better to avoid situations this
> through discussing proposals prior to merging them in master. I have
> proposed explicit parent contribution rules in
> https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-parent-pom/pull/13 Feel free to
> comment on them.
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