Re: [hibernate-dev] Hosting of binaries

For info, SourceForge hopes to restore ssh access (the last service they will activate) August 3rd. http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-infrastructure-and-service-restor... > On 28 Jul 2015, at 10:27, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > > Your proposed order seems good. I'd exclude GitHub if it's not scriptable (UI only) as this will hinder releases from the CI server. > > 2015-07-28 9:39 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org <mailto:emmanuel@hibernate.org>>: > As some of you know Sourceforge has had a severe distributed file system corruption and they have been working on it for a full week. You can read their blog for regular updates http://sourceforge.net/blog/ < http://sourceforge.net/blog/> > The concrete issue for us is that we cannot upload new files: Hibernate Validator and Hibernate ORM are now pending a release. > > There are 4 options on the table > > Be patient:: > SourceForge will eventually reopen upload, I imagine it might take form one to two weeks. > Their binary hosting support is relatively correct and all of our download statistics are there. > > Move to download.jboss.org <http://download.jboss.org/>:: > JBoss has a facility to host binaries. WildFly amongst other uses it. We can ask them if they are happy with it. > It is not connected to the rest of the forum/CMS infra, it’s a simple file upload AFAIK so easily scriptable. > They also offer statistics but how needs to be investigated. > > Move to GitHub:: > GitHub has a binary upload facility. I could only find a web based approach (can it be done programmatically?). > They don’t seem to have any statistics service, which is a big negative point. > Also I don’t trust GitHub anymore for their binary hosting. They had a version in the past that they scrapped with barely no notice. I’m not exactly willing to give them my trust again. > > Move to BinTray:: > Binary hosting is their life and blood. People seem happy with them. It seems however that the statistics require a paying package instead of the free oss tier. > > I think we should try in the following order: > > 1. Be patient with Sourceforge (but for how long?) > 2. go for download.jboss.org <http://download.jboss.org/> and before that ask around for the process and stability of the infrastructure > 3. explore Bintray > 4. GitHub (did I say that I no longer trust their binary hosting support?) > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev < https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev> _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev