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

[Catherine Robson (JIRA)]

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Catherine Robson commented on JBIDE-20100:
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Would it be worthwhile to put together a simple webpage that tells users exactly what they can and cannot do with the versions of fuse tooling that we have that we could link them to rather than using fairly abstract wording to tell them, "you probably can't do what you want, we're not sure what you're doing though" - which IMO is pretty much guaranteed to send users away.  We don't want to put the full complexity on the update row in JBoss Central because it would be unreadable and would distract from other tooling, but I think we do want a place where we can be very explicit with the developers so they know how to accomplish the task they set out to do.

On this webpage we should clearly be able to say, "Go to JBDS version X to do use case 1, use this version of JBDS with early access tooling to do use case 2, we don't have support yet for use case 3 but you can expect it in the x.x release." so users can very clearly understand what to do or when to try again.

WDYT?

> how to make users aware of fuse and other tooling only being available from earlyaccess? 
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>                 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: new_and_noteworthy, respin-a
>             Fix For: 4.3.0.CR1
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>         Attachments: 20100_JBDS_CR1_fuse_ea_popup.png, 20100_JBDS_CR1_fuse_unavail.png, 20100_JBDS_CR1_fuse_unavail_popup.png, 20100_JBT_Core_vs_EA_versions_of_Fuse_Connector.png, 20100_JBT_latest_no_checkbox.png, JBIDE-20100-2.png, JBoss_-_JBoss_Central_-_Eclipse_-__Users_max_workspaces_forjoshua.png, _JBIDE-20100__how_to_make_users_aware_of_fuse_and_other_tooling_only_being_available_from_earlyaccess__-_JBoss_Issue_Tracker_and_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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