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

[Pete Muir]

On 9 Sep 2014, at 12:54, Marek Novotny <mnovotny at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 9.9.2014 13:00, Pete Muir wrote:
>> On 9 Sep 2014, at 11:35, Marek Novotny <mnovotny at redhat.com> 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.

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