[hibernate-dev] Hosting of binaries

[Steve Ebersole]

FWIW the SourceForge upload UI seems to be restored.



On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:14 AM Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> 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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