+1 . This is a source of problems except for very specific cases.

2012/1/16 Ruediger Rolf <[email protected]>

> +1 from me too, and I would aim for the 1.3 release with this.
>
> Rüdiger
>
> Am 15.01.2012 02:28, schrieb Greg Logan:
>
>  +1 from me.  This change needs clear documentation, but I think overall
>> it will ease support burdens.  Are you targetting 1.3 for this change?
>>
>> G
>>
>> On 1/13/2012 9:01 AM, Tobias Wunden wrote:
>>
>>> Hey there,
>>>
>>> (disclaimer: I am aware that I may get some heat with the following
>>> proposal. However, I still think it's valid to give this a little room for
>>> discussion.)
>>>
>>> When shifting views from development to operations, it becomes apparent
>>> that our code setup is targeted at developers, and in principle, there's
>>> nothing wrong with that, especially given that we have been mostly
>>> developing for the past 3 years. However, now that the number of prototype
>>> and pilot installations is starting to grow, all the little things that you
>>> need to keep in mind when you want to do a non-developer setup is hindering
>>> our overall success.
>>>
>>> For this reason, I am going to propose a couple of ideas over the next
>>> few days and weeks, and hope that they will be considered with the goal to
>>> ease adoption, even though it may add a little more setup work for
>>> developers here and there. Overall, a developer will most likely be more
>>> patient setting this up than a potential adopter.
>>>
>>> So here is my first proposal:
>>>
>>> I am proposing to remove the capure agent impl from the default Maven
>>> build profile. The reason is twofold:
>>>
>>> First of all, more and more institutions are buying dedicated Matterhorn
>>> hardware to do their piloting / prototyping. I would much rather add
>>> documentation to the wiki on how to install a fake capture agent than
>>> having to explain to people why in their logs they see a capture agent
>>> (that they did not install) failing to push its capabilities and
>>> complaining about non-existing scheduling data every couple of seconds.
>>>
>>> The second reason is that on many backend machines, there are unit test
>>> failures (e. g. AudioMonitoringConsumerTest) that present a road block for
>>> quite some people on their very first install.
>>>
>>> A Maven profile "capture" already exists, so the change we would make is
>>> to set its "activeByDefault" property to "false", and developers working on
>>> the capture agent would need to change their mvn commandline to include
>>> "-Pcapture".
>>>
>>> I am looking forward to your comments!
>>>
>>> Tobias
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