Author: nickboldt Date: 2011-12-09 11:09:09 -0500 (Fri, 09 Dec 2011) New Revision: 37174 Added: trunk/central/README.milestone.testing.txt Log: add readme for milestone testing (alternate URL for discovery's directory.xml via cmdline) Added: trunk/central/README.milestone.testing.txt =================================================================== --- trunk/central/README.milestone.testing.txt (rev 0) +++ trunk/central/README.milestone.testing.txt 2011-12-09 16:09:09 UTC (rev 37174) @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +JBoss Central has a "software/update" page which gets its content from a hardcoded URL, set in the org.jboss.tools.central plugin. + +The published (current) milestone release URL is + + http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/indigo/jbosstool... + +The stable branch (upcoming milestone) URL is + + http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/core/3.3.indigo/jbos... + +The unstable trunk URL is + + http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/core/trunk/jbosstool... + +The same as used for all milestone releases of JBoss Tools; should you want to pull the list of available updates from a NEWER directory file (eg., during a QE cycle when there's a milestone candidate available, but the published milestone site still contains the PREVIOUS milestone), you can do so using a commmandline flag. + +Thus, when running Eclipse or JBDS, simply pass in an alternate URL like this: + +./jbdevstudio -vmargs -Djboss.discovery.directory.url=http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/core/3.3.indigo/jbosstools-directory.xml +./eclipse -vmargs -Djboss.discovery.directory.url=http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/core/3.3.indigo/jbosstools-directory.xml +