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

[Marek Novotny]

On 9.9.2014 13:56, Pete Muir wrote:
> 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.
>
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.


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