[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-16375) Allow to extend Central extensions catalog with "Early Access" stuff

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16375?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12968699#comment-12968699 ] 

Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-16375:
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+1, love it! 

I might suggest we get [~mmusaji] and [~mmurray]'s eyeballs on the copy shown to users to accept the fact that some EA features are not quite GA:

{code:title=https://github.com/mickaelistria/jbosstools-central/commit/5c478f22ecddf0bb2ef0f3aaa326d6dd4f08c10b#diff-d6fa7f846cbbfd4e510091629777316dR20}

+SoftwarePage_earlyAccessSection_Title=Early-Access Features
+SoftwarePage_earlyAccessSection_message=Early-Access features are features that are NOT supported, and NOT guaranteed to work \
+correctly in your IDE. However, they can provide some interesting features that are still being developed, and that the most \
+eager developers or contributors may want to try without waiting. So use them at your own risk!
+SoftwarePage_earlyAccessSection_checkbox=I understand those pitfalls, and I still want to access Early-Access features. 
{code}

I see the words "feature" and "access" quite a few times in the above copy; I might suggest we simplify that to reduce duplication. I also wouldn't hyphenate "Early-Access", but rather have "Early Access", as that's what we already have in the wild, eg., on pages like https://devstudio.jboss.com/earlyaccess/7.0/



> Allow to extend Central extensions catalog with "Early Access" stuff
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-16375
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16375
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: central, discovery
>            Reporter: Mickael Istria
>            Assignee: Mickael Istria
>             Fix For: 4.2.0.Beta2
>
>
> In order to make it easier for people to consume some "Beta" extensions from JBT or JBDS release (such as installing a Beta of JBT-IS on top of a JBT release), it would make sense to have Central allow users to select some catalogs in a UI entry such as "Include Experimental stuff" to show additional catalog entries.
> Either this could be a single catalog with the experimental content being annotated, or it could be 2 (or more catalogs) which have different quality levels.
> The Central UI will need to give feedback on the quality level for a given entry ("supported" or "experimental" or ...).



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