[cross-project-issues-dev] Its not too late to improve Galileo Discovery

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I wanted to call attention to this new bug just opened: 

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280090

Many people have incorrect URLs in the discovery/update URLs in their 
feature.xml. 

I am not asking anyone to risk breaking anything ... but, in many cases, 
it should be an easy fix, for fairly large benefit. 

Even when all the current ones are fixed up, the list will probably be too 
long to be easily usable, and long term, we'll need some innovation to 
improve the whole list, but fixing the duplicates and obvious incorrect 
ones will be a start. 

And, I wouldn't complain if some of you wanted to simply omit your URL 
from your feature.xml file (and therefore not on Galileo Discover site 
discovered list of "available software". If, for example, your update site 
is exactly equal to the Galileo update site, and your are pretty certain 
you would not have any off-cycle service updates, then there's little 
reason to have it in the list of available software, automatically 
discovered from Galileo. But some projects, such as webtools, do provide 
things at their update site that by design are not on the Galileo site 
(such as SDK/source features). And, sadly, webtools has had occasion to 
provide "hot fixes" before the next scheduled simultaneous service 
release. 

Feel free to discuss specific issues/questions in the bugzilla. 

Thanks,