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
>>>
>>>
>>
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