Ed Merks

I think @HannesWell and perhaps @laeubi can best explain the thoughts behind this.

Is there somewhere we can see the maven artifacts, in the form of a maven repository, before they are finally published to maven central?

@fipro78 Please open an issue for https://github.com/eclipse-orbit/orbit-simrel if/when there is a new version published to Maven Central that you would like to be included in an Orbit p2 repository.

No there is no need to announce updates because the process for discovering updates is effectively automatic. The analyzers determine the contents of the various *.target files, look at Maven...

FYI, if you look at https://adoptium.net/temurin/nightly/ you will see that there are beta/early-access builds:  I've been prototyping generating JustJ JREs from these things, though for Java 24: - https://download.eclipse.org/justj/jres/24/downloads/latest/...

@smlambert The primary purpose of JustJ is to produce JREs packaged as p2 artifacts hosted in a p2 repository. We also produce variants, such as a minimized version primarily for...

That's much like what happens for https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2023-03/ where we accumulate each M*, RC*, and R repository, we point only to the most recent one from the composite, and then we...

So many of these "maintain a composite" are a bunch shell script glue and everyone has variants thereof... For SimRel the following effectively copies the staging repo to a repo...

FYI. The setup tasks indicated above are disabled and will be modified and enabled when 4.33 master opens but 4.32 is not yet released.

Did you update the features to include the new fragments?