[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-20609) More accessible and visible Early Access content

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on JBIDE-20609:
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{quote}Looking at Fred's video I can only say that this is not making central easier to use - it is making it harder. {quote}
Can you please elaborate the user stories that are harder? Keep in mind that our users may not know, and most not even care, about Early Access, so the purpose it to remove the expectation that they know about beforehand, and to present them connectors in a way that they can go forward and only be bugged by Early Access when it makes sense.
For us, a checkbox "Show Early Access" is clear and explicit because we know what to expect from it, as its designers; but "Early Access" has no obvious meaning for users and I believe some users simply leave the checkbox unchecked and are never seeing Early-Access connectors just because they don't get what is Early Access, whereas it may make sense to them to try the EA components.
So the purpose is that a user can make the choice when necessary to enable EA or not, when it makes sense to them; not before as a pre-requisite to know about.

{quote}And yes, the about page is not at all simple enough to be the first thing we point users to when clicking "Manage Early access".{quote}
Can you please advise then?
Alexey had simple suggestions to make the page simpler, I'll try them.

{quote}Can someone remind me why the current situation is not okey now that we have the "advertisable" connectors where we can selectively make Fuse or other components showup with info on how to get them ?{quote}
Why give info when we can give simple and efficient user workflows? Since its inception, I've diskiked those advertisable connectors. There just polluting my list of additional software with some softwre I cannot install.

> More accessible and visible Early Access content
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>                 Key: JBIDE-20609
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-20609
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: central
>            Reporter: Mickael Istria
>            Assignee: Mickael Istria
>             Fix For: 4.3.1.Beta1, 4.4.0.Alpha1
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> In order to make early-access content more accessible, we can improve the workflow of making EA connectors visible



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