Re: [jbossdeveloper] <repository /> on quickstarts pom.xml

On 9 Sep 2014, at 13:06, Marek Novotny <mnovotny(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On 9.9.2014 13:56, Pete Muir wrote: >> On 9 Sep 2014, at 12:54, Marek Novotny <mnovotny(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> On 9.9.2014 13:00, Pete Muir wrote: >>>> On 9 Sep 2014, at 11:35, Marek Novotny <mnovotny(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 8.9.2014 18:48, Pete Muir wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> QSTools ticket: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JDF-762 >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> But after placing http://maven.repository.redhat.com/techpreview/all/ at the Quickstarts, I realized that we won't solve the user experience issues without adding - https://maven.repository.redhat.com// and >>>>>>>>>>>> - http://jboss-developer.github.io/temp-maven-repo/ also >>>>>>>>>>>> for the -develop branch. >>>>>>>>>> I’m not sure we need to worry about people using the -develop branch. This is for contributors only, and they can read the instructions normally. >>>>>>>> So I assume that we need to inject http://maven.repository.redhat.com/techpreview/all/ in pom.xml and make them to add the others in settings.xml >>>>>> Well, we may want to add earlyaccess too. WDYT? >>>>>> >>>>> Why we should have it there for end users? earlyaccess repository is >>>>> just exceptional resource for public Betas, isn't it? Isn't that >>>>> confusing to have it there even for traditional GA releases? >>>> OTOH this is not really the way Maven works. In Maven you tend to mix up all releases, and use version numbers to control what gets pulled in. >>> Even I agree with your statement, do we have a clean description there >>> what could end users understand why we have a bunch or repositories >>> there instead of one? We declared today that you can use our product >>> maven repository (online techpreview/all or offline zipped repository) >>> plus Central and then in Quickstarts we use "another" repository. >>> >>> I agree that injected repository will help to an end user, but wouldn't >>> it be simple just as one repository? >>> >>> you can easily manage versions in BOM imports etc. but for the learning >>> purpose it can be confusing. WDYT? >> Hmm. People are used to adding a second repo for snapshots, which is kinda similar. >> > What are our target group of developers for quicksktarts? Newbies or > experienced devs? > > I may see it more like short and simple bootstrap for newbies, but your > view is probably different. Agreed on newbies. Hence why we don’t want to make people add/remove repos, but have a sensible default configured for them. > > -- > Marek Novotny > -- > WFK and Seam Product Lead > > Red Hat Czech s.r.o. > Purkynova 99 > 612 45 Brno _______________________________________________ jbossdeveloper mailing list jbossdeveloper(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbossdeveloper