[hibernate-dev] hibernate.org ORM release series page

Yoann Rodiere yoann at hibernate.org
Fri Feb 2 10:10:25 EST 2018


So... It's a yes for the current state of staging (with Bintray links)?

On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 at 16:07 Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 8:36 AM Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Yoann Rodiere <yoann at hibernate.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> @Guillaume, all: I also changed the links of other projects to point to
>>> Maven Central instead of the JBoss Nexus, because the JBoss Nexus requires
>>> authentication. And, well, also because... Nexus.
>>>
>>
>> Frankly, I find the new Maven Central links (we used JBoss Nexus before
>> that) you created far more useful than the Bintray page.
>>
>> Compare:
>>
>> https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3Aorg.hibernate.validator%20AND%20a%3Ahibernate-validator%2A%20AND%20v%3A6.0.7.Final
>> with
>> https://bintray.com/hibernate//artifacts/hibernate-orm/5.3.0.Beta2#
>>
>>
> See you cheated though.  You "just happened" to use a project that has a
> dedicated groupId.  If we used a dedicated groupId for ORM
> (`org.hibernate.orm` e.g.) then its not a big deal either way.
>
> Craft the same search for ORM and compare (1) the display and (2) the
> complexity needed to build the search.
>
> If you don't like the release/version-specific view Bintray offers then
> fine - that's your point of view.  I just happen to completely disagree.
>
>
>
> One goes straight to the point and for the other, it's not that obvious.
>>
>> And this page is very nice too:
>> https://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Corg.hibernate.validator%7Chibernate-validator-relocation%7C6.0.7.Final%7Cpom
>>
>> On Bintray, the first artifact presented is agroal which is a bit weird
>> (yeah I know, alphabetical order but we do better on our pages).
>>
>> If it were me I would vote for having this layout
>> http://staging.hibernate.org/validator/releases/6.0/ + the link to
>> search.maven.org for all the projects. I don't think the Bintray page is
>> better than what you did with search.maven.org.
>>
>> By the way, Bintray should test its UI with Firefox too, it's full of
>> annoying usability bugs (I experienced 2 just by checking the ORM page)...
>>
>
> Bintray is in fact in the middle of a UI/UX rewrite, so...
>
> And selecting the "main" artifact used in the drop down is one of those
> items
>
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Yoann Rodiere
yoann at hibernate.org / yrodiere at redhat.com
Software Engineer
Hibernate NoORM team


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