Hi Jan,
Nah, I still disagree: we're not to support NetBeans 8.2 (we can't do
that, after all). We could keep on hosting the RELEASE82 artifacts at
OSOUL, I think, even without requesting special permission from them.
The problem would then be knowing which artifacts in the repository
belong to the RELEASE82 version. I have no clue on how to do that. The
repository holds _hundreths_ of _thousands_ of files, I don't think we
can backup the whole repository.
Finally I think nobody is interested in this, I mean, users do not seem
to be worried about this. Nobody has spoken up or requested a backup.
I imagine companies and users will have those artifacts locally cached
in their $HOME/.m2 directory, and that's probably good enough for them
to keep on building their stuff.
Maybe we could suggest users to keep a backup of their $HOME/.m2
RELEASE82 artifacts, and use that for future builds, before migrating to
newest NetBeans versions.
Kind regards,
Antonio
El 15/7/20 a las 22:19, Jan Lahoda escribió:
Hi Antonio,
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 6:35 PM antonio <anto...@vieiro.net> wrote:
Hi,
Well I can't understand why people will complain, after all:
- Oracle has been very kind in hosting the binaries for several years
now (8.2 was released in Octobre 2016!).
- We've set up a temporary solution that allowed for a smooth transition
(i.e, the bits.netbeans.org redirection).
- We've put in place a viable/better alternative (i.e., using Maven
Central).
Maybe we could suggest/announce users to upgrade to the latest (Apache)
NetBeans version, or sugest them to make a backup of the repository if
they need that for reproducible builds.
That's why I'm asking through a lazy consensus thread: we all agree that
it's not our mission to keep four-year-old, non-Apache binaries around,
right?
I am not quite sure it is not our mission - I think our mission is to
support people using NetBeans, and I think we should at least try to keep
old things running if we can.
Assuming this project cannot at this time host the artifacts on the Apache
infrastructure (there were talks about it on legal-discuss, but it didn't
progress too far), I wonder if netbeans.osuosl.org could be a place to host
at least the Maven repository and at least parts of the last non-Apache
release (like the zips). Is there someone we could ask?
Thanks,
Jan
Cheers,
Antonio
El 15/7/20 a las 10:37, Eric Barboni escribió:
But make this decommissioning a notice by Oracle because Apache NetBeans
is not in charge of the maven artifacts that are on
bits.netbeans.org/maven2 and we will have lots of complains I guess.
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