Hi Juan, I would need your ip to unblock you. Since this is a publicly archived list, you can send it to me directly.
Thanks, Brian 2009/8/17 Juan Jesús García de Soria Lucena <[email protected]>: > First of all, I beg your pardon for having done a thing specifically > discouraged in > http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-repositories.html. > Please excuse us for any extra work/pain resulting from it. > > We did try to mirror the Maven Central Repository and, obviously, we got > banned. > > Actually we tried that for a good reason: our organization won't allow > a "server" username/password for the Internet proxy that we could > configure into a Nexus instance. We only get access to per physical > user username/password pairs, and these expire after a period. > Furthermore, beyond a usage limit the proxy accounts (and the > associated Windows domain account with it) get locked. All this means > that having the credentials of one of us in Nexus is probably bound to > be a maintenance hassle. > > In any case, we got a Nexus instance up and running for our > development team. After getting more acquainted with how Maven works > and with the huge amount of software available at Maven Central, we > now know for sure that we don't want to replicate it locally. We'll > try to live with the problems of having a personal user account > configured into Nexus proxy settings, and if that doesn't work as > needed, we'll try to fight our way inside the organization to get some > special account for Nexus. > > In any case, we'd need the proxy of our organization unbanned from > Maven Central. Thus, I kindly request the people in charge of handling > these issues to unban it. If this is not the best place to ask for > unbanning, please tell me where to ask. > > I can provide you with the outbound IP address of our proxy as needed. > > > Best regards, and thanks in advance, > > Juan Jesus. > > > > -- > Dream small if success is enough for you; dream big if you need to > change the world. >
