[jbosstools-dev] Feedback on 2.1.CR1

[Galder Zamarreno]

Hi guys,

I've been playing around with tools 2.1.CR1 and specially the 
build/publish area. I wanted to make a few comments on this:

1.- Is there a way to do a Build Archive (Full) and Publish in just one 
click?

2.- I get no feedback when I do "Build Archive (Full)". IOW, did 
anything change? Or didn't it build anything cos nothing had changed? 
Maybe I forgot to rebuild? I get no type of feedback.

3.- If I do a publish on an archive that hasn't changed (maybe cos I 
forgot to rebuild the archive and hence the build archive did nothing, 
but don't know at this stage), the event log says:

-> Publishing [1 modules, 0 files changed]
   -> [Full, no change] .jar

This is very misleading cos in fact it didn't do anything even though 
the even says "Publishing...". It didn't deploy the jar cos it hasn't 
changed. Also, what does "0 files changed" mean?

If the archive had actually changed and the publish has really occurred, 
you get:

-> Publishing [1 modules, 0 files changed]
   -> [Full, Changed] .jar

I have to extend the event to actually realise that the jar changed was 
actually published, even thought the title of the even still says "0 
files changed".

Bottom line, the event log needs to be clearer in what happened without 
having to do too many clicks. Besides, each publish cannot be 
distinguished, maybe it's worth adding a timestamp or something to each 
publish event?

Cheers,
-- 
Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Maintenance Engineer
JBoss, a division of Red Hat