[hibernate-dev] Hosting of binaries

[Emmanuel Bernard]

For info, SourceForge hopes to restore ssh access (the last service they will activate) August 3rd.
http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-infrastructure-and-service-restoration-update-for-728/

> On 28 Jul 2015, at 10:27, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> 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 at hibernate.org <mailto:emmanuel at 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?)
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