I like it. :-) Maybe we should put a blog entry together, promote it a lot on Twitter, etc, with exactly our plans here and the consequences, and provide a specific date, maybe 1 September, from which point all this will take effect — this will help to set expectations for Oracle while also giving us time to identify unknown unknowns.
Gj On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 12:12, Antonio <anto...@vieiro.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > During these years we have been using (abusing?) Oracle's infrastructure > to help us with the transition. I think we all are grateful for this > help and acknowledge its importance. > > During the years we've been busy moving things around: > > - We have a website (and Wade's backup of the old one), including the > DTDs that were hosted at netbeans.org. > - We have migrated tutorials, including those at platform.netbeans.org, > and the important parts of the wiki. > - We have uploaded all artifacts to Maven central. > - We have backed up bugzilla.netbeans.org in readonly mode. > - We are publishing our Javadocs at bits.netbeans.org > - We have the Apache mirror system that works to deliver our stuff. > - We have synergy.netbeans.org, and a brand new plugins.netbeans.org > - We have JIRA in place for handling issues. > > I think it's time now to alleviate Oracle's load and let them go, and > stand on our own foot. Maybe there are imperfections and things to > improve, of course, but I think we will be able to handle those. > > So I propose to define a plan and start disconnecting redirections and > things and ask users to move on to the whole Apache infrastructure. > Let's make users help us in the process. > > Plan could be as follows: > > 1- Stop redirecting bits.netbeans.org maven repos and see who is using > that. Define a plan _with_ them. > 2- Stop redirecting plugins.netbeans.org to old plugins, and see who is > using that (maybe this could increase the participation in migrating > C/C++ cluster?) > 3- Redirect netbeans.org to apache.netbeans.org. > 4- Redirect platform.netbeans.org to apache.netbeans.org > > So, what say? Shall we start doing this? Alternatives? Opinions? > > Cheers, > Antonio > > > El 16/7/20 a las 10:45, Neil C Smith escribió: > > compliant with distribution terms. If someone wants to take that on > > and mirror it, taking full responsibility, we could consider > > maintaining forwarding, or better advertise the new (not at > > netbeans.org) address with suitable disclaimer? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
