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Sometimes it does not make sense to make the registry changes live at the same moment a component/group is uploaded. Thus there should be an option to make the changes available only after a special signal is sent. E.g. as the NetBeans portfolio is built, the components are being uploaded, but the changes should become visible only after the last "pack" is built.
An additional clarification from BE: Our usual work flow for the major milestone releases are: 1) Build the bits 2) Upload them on the NB.org download area 3) Register the bits to the DB with visibility flag set to false. 4) Make the data visible on the staging server - testing copy of the NB.org webserver not the production NB.org. So the QE have the same access to the bits as on the NB.org and with the same web pages and navigation. 5) QE give us GO for the release and the bits go visible to the NB.org or we get NO GO and we have to rebuild the bits and go back to the 1) :-(.
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