Well ... this is certainly something to discuss ... perhaps a bit larger
than this plugin in scope.
As way of background ... the motivation for the plugin was to close out
a discussion (and JIRA) that was nearly a year old. At the time (and in
subsequent recent discussions) it decided that this simple plugin would
provide one solution for users that wanted to share a common Geronimo
installation image and have server specific instances each controlling
it's own set of deployed applications. See GERONIMO-2814
> [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-2814] for details. I
think this plugin (and the wiki notes) provide a manageable but
certainly not optimal solution for the desired configuration.
Considering a default split between repositories for system vs. server
use by default (even if only a single Geronimo server is running from an
installation) is a much broader issue and requires more consensus from
the community.
Is it your opinion that we should not release this plugin and tackle
this larger issue?
I'd be interested in hearing other opinions on this point.
It seems that this simple plugin is becoming a hot-bed for several large
issues ... plugin version management, repository structure/management
... what's next? :-)
Joe
Donald Woods wrote:
Well, looking at the wiki page explaining this in the vote, I really
don't like the 2 notes/warnings at the bottom of the page.
It seems that what we really need to do, is in 2.2 make a new server
instance repo under /var/repository the default for any user deployed
apps/plugins and update the current portlet to install/view items into
the repo, to only allow view rights to ghome/repository and install/view
to var/repository.
That way, we don't get apps deployed to multiple repos at the same time
as the default behavior, users don't have to add a second repo
themselves (which require write access to the ghome/repository
directory) and it may help simplify how things would behave when WADI
clustering is used.
-Donald
Joe Bohn wrote:
Start of thread to discuss any concerns/issues/questions with the vote
for the Server Repository plugin for Geronimo 2.1.1
Joe
