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

[Pete Muir]

On 9 Sep 2014, at 13:06, Marek Novotny <mnovotny at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.

Agreed on newbies. Hence why we don’t want to make people add/remove repos, but have a sensible default configured for them.

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