[hibernate-dev] Hosting of binaries

[Sanne Grinovero]

+1, same order of preference.

I'd add that when SourceForge was recently in the news because of
their ethical mistakes, I thought we should move.. but that seems to
have calmed down so my preference would be to stay there still for
historical reasons: good for users to have a stable home for the long
term.

We don't need to keep releases on hold right? I'd say release stuff as
usual, and archive the tarballs for deferred uploads to SF, even if it
takes a month to fix that's not a blocking issue for us, as long as we
have Maven repositories.

JBoss.org's mirror system sounds tempting. Since both are scriptable,
we could upload to both (not to SF for the moment), and slowly
deprecate SF? To keep stability in the long term, we'd need to move to
a system in which we own the URL (should be listed as hibernate.org).

Sanne

On 28 July 2015 at 10:39, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
> 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?)
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