Hi Manfred,

  With my Maven committer hat I would prefer to restrict the default
choices to the latest stable releases we have.

  With my Jenkins committer hat I see this as an enhancement request.
Jenkins should allow for each product to limit/classify the proposed
version. For sure the rule won't be the same for Maven, Gradle, Ant and the
list for each product will evolve. For sure I cannot for now remove older
versions to add the most recent because it will be considered as a
bug/regression for current users who are using it to automatically install
an old Maven version (the catalog is used by all instances, its not
something integrated/hardcoded in jenkins). It is exactly the problem that
groovy has today with the shutdown of codehaus (
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/INFRA-310)

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Manfred Moser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hm ... isnt the fact that Maven 2.x is deprecated reason enough to NOT
> offer it in Jenkins. From my memory 2.0.8 and 2.0.9 had some severe
> problems and only 2.0.10 sort of fixed things.
>
> Personally I would think that you should restrict the list in Jenkins even
> excluding 2.x altogether. Or maybe just having 2.2.1 only.
>
> And if someone really needs it they can always install whatever version
> (and pain) they choose via the tar.gz/zip archive method based off a
> different server.
>
> Manfred
>
> Arnaud Héritier wrote on 21.05.2015 15:21:
>
> > Jason,
> >
> >  It don't find binaries of < 2.0.9 in central. Did I miss something ?
> >
> >  I would like (for jenkins) to not remove old releases from the catalog
> > without a real reason ...
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Why don't you just use Maven Central. Those copies are not going
> anywhere.
> >>
> >> On May 21, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Arnaud Héritier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Resurrecting this thread.
> >> > Having a standardised place to find all versions was a good thing
> >> > Because of the change jenkins doesn't propose anything > 3.2.2
> because it
> >> > is checking only in http://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/
> >> > And it doesn't see the content of https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist
> >> > /release/maven/maven-3/
> >> > Sadly no central isn't a better solution
> >> > * >= 2.0.9 :
> >> > http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/
> >> > * < 2.0.9 : not available in central AFAIK (yes they are old but ..)
> >> >
> >> > Before fixing the Jenkins Catalog (
> >> > https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/INFRA-181) I would need to have
> our
> >> > feedback to have a long term solution if possible
> >> >
> >> > Cheers
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Why do you need it there?
> >> >>
> >> >> The way binaries are kept at Apache is inconsistent. How it evolved
> over
> >> >> time where things disappear from one place to another (official
> >> >> distribution to archives) I don't find makes much sense but that's
> the
> >> way
> >> >> it is. If you require a distribution in a standard place take it from
> >> Maven
> >> >> Central. It will always be in the same place.
> >> >>
> >> >> On Dec 29, 2014, at 12:51 AM, Milos Kleint <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Hello,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> for some reason 3.2.3 is not available in the archives, is that
> >> >> intentional
> >> >>> or something went wrong with the 3.2.5 release?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Thanks
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Milos
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >>
> >> >> Jason
> >> >>
> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> Jason van Zyl
> >> >> Founder,  Apache Maven
> >> >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
> >> >> http://twitter.com/takari_io
> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------
> >> >>
> >> >> What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. Good people
> can
> >> >> fix bad ideas, but good ideas can't save bad people.
> >> >>
> >> >> -- Paul Graham
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Jason
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------
> >> Jason van Zyl
> >> Founder, Takari and Apache Maven
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> >> http://twitter.com/takari_io
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------
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> >> signs of decline and decay.
> >>
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