[Hawkular-dev] Importing JBoss BoMs to Hawkular Parent

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.