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

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 25 Aug 2014, at 15:55, Karel Piwko wrote:

> I recall this issue Fred reported in the past:
>
> https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5663
>
> It was fixed in Maven 3.2.3 and not present in 3.1.x. If we add 
> <repository> element we need to make sure people are using right Maven 
> version.

It was also not present in 3.2.0 nor 3.2.1 - in other words only problem 
in 3.2.2 so I do not think this is something to worry about too much 
besides documenting that mvn 3.2.2 has a bug.

/max

> Karel
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Rafael Benevides 
> <benevides at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On a look for a continuous improvement on developer user experience 
>> and also because we have been constantly asked to support issues 
>> related to the setup of https://access.redhat.com/maven-repository to 
>> make the quickstarts work, we want to include the <repository /> 
>> definition on quickstarts pom.xml
>>
>> Actually the Archetypes already have the <repository /> on the 
>> pom.xml file of the generated project.
>>
>> The idea here is to have the <repository /> with the 
>> https://maven.repository.redhat.com/techpreview/all/ defined on every 
>> quickstarts's pom.xml file with a comment on top of it saying that 
>> this approach is not recommended but we included it so users can test 
>> the quickstarts without further setup and that it's recommended to 
>> use settings.xml.
>>
>> It will bring the following advantages: - It will make ease to 
>> contributors and users - Simplify the build. - Simplify the Archetype 
>> synch process / No need to inject the repo since it will come from 
>> the Quickstarts - We can add a pre-defined comment above the pom.xml 
>> repository definition to explain that we don't recommend that. - We 
>> can also add this "comment" to QSTools to check/fix it.
>>
>> As a roadmap for it:
>> - We need to document that at the 
>> https://github.com/jboss-developer/jboss-developer-shared-resources - 
>> We need to update the contributing guides - We need to update QSTools 
>> to do this update on all quickstarts for us.
>> Max, Is there any restrictions on JBDS side ?
>> Anyone else have any objections/comments on this $subject ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -- 
>>
>> Rafael Benevides | Senior Software Engineer
>> JBoss Developer
>> M: +55-61-9269-6576
>>
>>
>>
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/max
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