Hi all,

I have a few questions about CQs, especially in the context of Maven
dependencies. I'm working on a guideline which I will publish in the
project wiki and which other committers of the project can use if they want
to add new dependencies.

I would love to get your feedback about whether the following assumptions
are correct.

   - If the dependency is "test"-scoped, it is always a Test and Build
   
<https://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/IP/Test_and_Build_Dependencies>
   dependency and therefore treated as a *workswith*.
   - If the dependency is "provided"-scoped, it is only used at build-time
   but not really "distributed" in any way. Instead, it must be provided by
   the environment in which the corresponding Eclipse project is used in. Such
   dependencies are therefore also *workswith*.
   - Dependencies which are "compile"-scoped are usually *prereq*
   dependencies. However, if the dependency is part of some kind of "optional
   addon module" of the Eclipse project and not part of the "core
   functionality", it is *workswith*.
   - Maven plugins are usually *workswith*.
   - You can update to newer patch releases of a third-party dependency
   without filing a new CQ. So in most cases it is fine to update from
   something like 1.2.4 to 1.2.9, but not to 1.3.0. Of course this only works
   the license of the dependency didn't change.

I would love to hear your thoughts.

Christian





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