[hibernate-dev] Hosting of binaries

[Emmanuel Bernard]

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/
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::
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 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?)