On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Antonio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Some comments/ideas: > > 1. I think we should open an issue with INFRA so they are aware ouf our > ~3TB/month load requirements. I imagine they'll prefer we use the mirror > network. > > 2. We can make http://netbeans.apache.org/updates/9.0/ redirect to > wherever we want (we _don't need a specific domain_ for that) by using a > simple .htaccess file (much like [1]). We can do this ourselves, today. Let > me know if you want to try it out with, say, the 9.0-beta files. I think > Infra should validate that our web server is going to hold the load, though. >
That would surely be a nicer URL. > > 3. If we use the mirror system we'll be losing statistics. AFAIK the > mirror network does not consolidate server logs. > Do we have logs from the webserver? We don't need the statistics from the mirrors, but statistics from the redirects would be nice. Jan > > 4. Now that we're talking about releasing NBMs maybe we should start > thinking on releasing stuff to Maven central (as NetCAT required). How are > maven central artifacts generated? I don't think we have this tooling under > the Apache umbrella, have we? > > Cheers, > Antonio > > > [1] > https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans-website/blob/ > master/netbeans.apache.org/src/content/.htaccess > > > > On 05/04/18 16:15, Jan Lahoda wrote: > >> I believe this is about NBMs built from the standard distribution. Good >> among others for dot-dot updates, where the users could just download >> updated modules, not the whole distro. >> >> I think the current overall idea (based on ideas by many other people, >> like >> Jarda): >> -release the NBMs and the catalog as part of the convenience binaries >> (this >> will probably need a little tweaking) >> -have a (NetBeans 9.0-specific) URL setup on the netbeans-vm, like e.g.: >> http://netbeans-vm.apache.org/updates/9.0 >> which would do a redirect to the Apache release using: >> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?action=download&filename=<path> >> >> this should automatically redirect to mirrors. >> >> Not sure if we can fully test this without doing a release, but my plan >> for >> a near future was to change our continuous build (one of them) to produce >> the NBMs and then ask to have the redirect setup - then we could do at >> least some testing. >> >> Jan >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >>> >>> We need to nail down this one and I think the key blocker is that there >>> are >>> different ideas about what this is about: >>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-330 >>> >>> The above is not about the Plugin Portal. >>> >>> If I understand it correctly, this is about where the NBMs (which ones? >>> how >>> many? do we know?) and the related XML file (a.k.a. update center) will >>> be >>> hosted. >>> >>> AFAIK, the XML file and the NBMs could be put onto our Apache NetBeans VM >>> just like Synergy: >>> >>> http://netbeans-vm.apache.org/synergy >>> >>> The key question remains, which NBMs are we talking about here, >>> applicable >>> to the 9.0 release, I think. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Gj >>> >>> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
