[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-17808) Identify which installed IUs are from Early Access vs. supported/tested versions

[Max Rydahl Andersen (JIRA)]

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Max Rydahl Andersen commented on JBIDE-17808:
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[~mickael_istria] we already discussed this in past - the usecase was part of the discussion regarding requirement for the early access feature: see https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2745?focusedCommentId=12800808&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12800808

"Thus the idea of "blessed features/plugins" came about. Have some representation of plugins/features incl. version ranges we are ok with (supported) and which we consider (earlyaccess). This list would be stored in the discovery plugin (assuming we can make it small enough)

Then central could crosscheck this list of plugins/features with what is actually running inside eclipse and mark/highlight wether there are earlyaccess parts PLUS it could report on "foreign" parts which we had no explicit knowledge/info on.

To summarize my idea would be:

A) add "earlyaccess" notion to connectors on central
B) have explicit list of plugins/features that are considered supported vs earlyaccess
C) add visual hints and UI to make it clear you installed some of this and you can figure out what you've installed that are experimental."

You'll notice that we only have 2 out of 3.





> Identify which installed IUs are from Early Access vs. supported/tested versions
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-17808
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17808
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: central
>            Reporter: Nick Boldt
>             Fix For: 4.2.0.Beta3
>
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> [~maxandersen] brought up a good point on a call today:
> we have no way from within JBDS of identifying which installed IUs were installed from Early Access vs. those what were installed from Central or another "supported" location.
> Thus we need some sort of UI to list installed IUs that are "Early Access".
> This could be... (brainstorming now):
> * a text file with the list of things installed from Early Access (features and plugins)
> * a set of asterisks added to the Help > About dialogs when browsing for installed features / plugins
> * a way to filter the plugin view (Help > About) to show only EA content (or exclude it)
> * ... ?



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