Update Policy changes

[olkornii]

Hi everyone,

I have a question about Global Update Policy updates: #1419
There used to be a checkbox, now it's a dropdown menu.

As far as I understand from the PR, previously CHECKED checkbox means "Never" in the new dropdown and UNCHECKED means "Default" in the new dropdown. So, if I want the same state as the previously CHECKED checkbox, I should choose "Never" in dropdown menu, then if I want the same state as the UNCHECKED checkbox before, then I should choose "Default", am I right?

@laeubi sorry to pinging you, but I think you have the most accurate information about that. I have limited time so a quick reply would be greatly appreciated.

[laeubi]

Default means some kind of default (e.g. using what ever is the default in maven that currently check every 24 hrs).

So you should simply choose what you desire here, the checkbox was a bit confusing as different settings where probably used across different functions and this is now similar to what is described here
under updatePolicy.

[olkornii]

@laeubi
ok, so checked is "never", then what is unchecked? "Default" ?

[laeubi]

Unchecked has no equivalent.

[olkornii]

In your Commit you have "Currently one can only select that updates are never performed or some
"defaults" are used.". Does "defaults" means something else? I thought it is "default".

[laeubi]

Never before mean never as in that it was explicitly disabled. some "defaults" before means that something unspecified was used.

Now Never means still never, and Default means using the default value that maven would use (e.g. from the pom, settings, commandline options, ...)

[olkornii]

@laeubi
I see. Thank you. Now I know what to do :)