[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}The video don't show what happens if I disable earlyaccess - will I still be proposed earlyaccess content when installing ?{quote}
Yes, you get asked about Early-Access or not whenever you have choice between 2 "flavours" of the same connector, independently of whether Early-Access sites are enabled or not.

{quote}Also how does it handle when there is a "non-installable connector" vs "earlyaccess connector" ? {quote}
I need to check this scenario. I'm not sure it's correctly handled with suggested implementation.
What do you think is user expectation in that case?

{quote}Suggestion: don't force users to see the detailed earlyaccess info just to turn it off. Have a checkbox with "Show earlyaccess" and earlyaccess underlined.
Have it on by default (opposite to what we had until now), clicking earlyaccess get you to the detailed dialog for more info and unchecking the checkbox = disable earlyaccess and after that EA won't be suggested to install.
WDYT ?{quote}
Can you give details about the "turn if off" ? For this installation process, it can mean several things (hide EA connectors and/or remove EA sites). The benefit of the dialog is that is comes with some clearer explanation of the action user can perform on EA.
With my proposed change change, instead of dealing with filtering in the viewer, user is facing the choice of regular vs EA in a pop-up only when it makes sense for them. What you suggest seems to remove this popup and to stick with a concept of early-access "state" in the viewer which I believe is not necessary at that time and is more complex than asking the question to user as part of the installation process.
Also, I do not see a reason for hiding Early-Access content when there is no "regular" one.

{quote}On video EA connector installed, but after restart it looks like normal connector was installed not EA.{quote}
It's because in that example, the normal connector is a subset of EA connector. So installing content of EA installs the content of normal and the discovery mechanism assumes that both are installed.


> 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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