[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-20100) how to make users aware of fuse and other tooling only being available from earlyaccess?

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

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Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-20100:
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Merged my other PR as there were no objections: https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-discovery/pull/304

Test setup added via this commit: https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-discovery/pull/305

Built: https://jenkins.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com/hudson/view/DevStudio/view/DevStudio_Master/job/jbosstools-discovery_master/ >= 4441

Can then install JBT or JBDS and point at default nightly CI site to see what we see -- should have a Fuse connector for both JBT and JBDS Central, available as a "notavailable" one when EA is disabled, and as "earlyaccess" when EA is enabled.

The notavailable one contains no IUs to install. The earlyaccess one contains the normal list of IUs. I am unsure whether the IUs can be resolved by default from ide-config.properties, but I've fixed a missing config directive I hope [1]. Also reported a couple of problems w/ the JBT/JBDS IS update sites: JBTIS-493, JBTIS-494.

[1] https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-download.jboss.org/pull/553

> how to make users aware of fuse and other tooling only being available from earlyaccess? 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-20100
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-20100
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: central
>            Reporter: Max Rydahl Andersen
>            Assignee: Mickael Istria
>              Labels: xtriage
>             Fix For: 4.3.0.CR1
>
>         Attachments: JBIDE-20100-2.png, JBoss_-_JBoss_Central_-_Eclipse_-__Users_max_workspaces_forjoshua.png
>
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> [~jtyrrell] find it confusing when he cannot see Fuse and other earlyaccess features immediately on the install page.
> Some comments:
> "I install JBDS 8.1 and click on the JBoss Integration and SOA Development, but where is the Fuse tooling in that list."
> "<without earlyaccess> why doesn’t my screen shot tell me to use an older version of JBDS or something."
> Suggestion:
> "when I picked the Integration Stack a greyed out Fuse IDE thingy in the list of choices, and something like (Select early Access) to enable this feature."
> I'm fine exploring options to show early access features more prominently but would prefer we would not need to treat Fuse "special" so maybe we should have a "Early Access" section at the bottom instead of filtered in between everything else ? 
> and for any connectors that has additional/different features just add a "Extra features available in Early access " comment ? 
> But what to do when Fuse or others dont even have an earlyaccess out yet ? (like is currently the state for devstudio 9)
> [~crobson], [~aileenc] and [~lhein] got any suggestions ?



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