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Bug 359290

Summary:

Poor experience when local configurator is out-of-date

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Robert Munteanu <robert.munteanu>

Component:

m2e

Assignee:

Project Inbox <m2e.core-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

igor

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Out of date configurator is considered missing	none
m2e-tycho 0.5.0 is installed	none
m2e marketplace dialog with no entries but finish enabled	none
new version of tycho configurator	none
bogus certification displayed	none

Description Robert Munteanu

2011-09-28 14:27:21 EDT

I've recently updated one of my builds to tycho 0.13.0 . Eclipse noticed the change in the projects and I was soon greeted with an error regarding an out-of-date configurator. However, I verified that the Tycho project configurator was installed. I went ahead and clicked 'Discover new m2e project connectors'. I was shown the m2e marketplace dialog with no connectors shown but a finish was enabled. I decided to click finish and eventually was prompted to install the 0.6 version of the Tycho configurator. A 'unknown' certificate was presented for my approval, which I approved.After the restart I needed to manually update the project configuration.

All in all, the experience was quite confusing and counter-intuitive. Please consider improving it, as this will begin to be a more encountered situation as project configurators require updates.

Comment 1 Robert Munteanu

2011-09-28 14:28:24 EDT

Created attachment 204210 [details]
Out of date configurator is considered missing

Comment 2 Robert Munteanu

2011-09-28 14:29:34 EDT

Created attachment 204211 [details]
m2e-tycho 0.5.0 is installed

Comment 3 Robert Munteanu

2011-09-28 15:05:00 EDT

Created attachment 204215 [details]
m2e marketplace dialog with no entries but finish enabled

Comment 4 Robert Munteanu

2011-09-28 15:06:01 EDT

Created attachment 204216 [details]
new version of tycho configurator

Comment 5 Robert Munteanu

2011-09-28 15:07:03 EDT

Created attachment 204217 [details]
bogus certification displayed

Comment 6 Igor Fedorenko

2011-09-28 15:45:21 EDT

Any specific suggestions how to improve?

Btw, all you really needed to do was to update project configuration. I believe there is a quick-fix associated with the error marker too.

Comment 7 Robert Munteanu

2011-09-28 15:54:08 EDT

I would suggest the following:

* if the project configuration is out of date, do not show any other error markers or messages , as they mislead users - as they did to me;
* when a connector is selected for update , display its listing in the m2e marketplace dialog ( I suspect that all installed entries are filtered , irrespective of whether they have a more recent version )
* fix/remove the signing certificate for the tycho configurator

Comment 8 Robert Munteanu

2011-09-29 02:37:51 EDT

Sorry, never mean to resolve it.

Comment 9 Igor Fedorenko

2011-09-30 09:34:20 EDT

(In reply to comment #7)
> I would suggest the following:
> 
> * if the project configuration is out of date, do not show any other error
> markers or messages , as they mislead users - as they did to me;

no plans to do this. it is not possible to determine if configuration-out-of-sync causes other problems (most likely not) and we don't want to hide legitimate problems.

> * when a connector is selected for update , display its listing in the m2e
> marketplace dialog ( I suspect that all installed entries are filtered ,
> irrespective of whether they have a more recent version )

Discovery upgrade scenarios are tracked by bug 350786.


> * fix/remove the signing certificate for the tycho configurator

removed signature.

Comment 10 Denis Roy

2021-04-19 13:26:55 EDT

Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/