Description of problem: all quickstarts directories doesn't include readme.html files Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): EAP 6.2.0 ER3
The community version of the quickstarts do not contain the README.html files. Pete: Do we want to add them for the product branch?
I spoke with @pmuir and he believes we should not provide HTML files for the README.md files. Can you give me a compelling reason why we need this?
As I can see, *.md files contain links I can't use to look up resources. Am I doing something wrong?
No. When you view the README in GitHub or on the JDF site, the links appear. For example, the bean-validation quickstart README.md file renders here: http://site-jdf.rhcloud.com/quickstarts/jboss-as-quickstart/bean-validation/
I doubt, that customer downloaded quickstarts will be able to see anything on his local machine.
Updated instructions to use 'mvn clean install' and generated README.html files in this pull: https://github.com/jboss-developer/jboss-eap-quickstarts/pull/654
Verified on EAP 6.2.0 ER5.1
Reopening this bug. On IRC today, Marek Schmid, Rafael Benevides, Paul Gier and I discussed this issue. It really does not make sense to add the HTML files to GitHub.THe markdown is the file of record and it is difficult to keep the html file in sync with it. Instead, Paul will run the 'dist/release-utils.sh -m' script as part of the release process to generate the HTML files. This will assure that they are update to date and valid. I will be submitting a pull to revert this change.
Verified on EAP 6.2 ER7