[Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-11-25 Thread Brian E. Fox
The central repo has been undergoing significant load lately, most likely the result of people crawling and attempting to download all 70GB of it. I'd like to point out the availability of additional mirrors that you can use to increase your download performance and reduce the load on central. Thes

Re: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-11-25 Thread Baptiste MATHUS
2008/11/25 Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The central repo has been undergoing significant load lately, > Also, if you are using a repo manager, make sure to correctly configure > it to not make requests to public repositories for your internal > artifacts. Otherwise you are making a ton of

RE: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-11-25 Thread Brian E. Fox
D] On Behalf Of Baptiste MATHUS Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:54 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use 2008/11/25 Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The central repo has been undergoing significant load lately,

Re: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-11-29 Thread Alex Athanasopoulos
This touches on my pet peeve about maven. I wish that I could download a zip file containing the subset of central containing maven's core plugins and their dependencies. I would then gladly use it as my central mirror and work productively on my projects without having to worry about central. I

Re: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-11-29 Thread Torsten Werner
Hi, On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Alex Athanasopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish that I could download a zip file containing the subset of central > containing maven's core plugins and their dependencies. me too! ;-) And I like to have a minimal zip file: just one version of every cor

Re: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-11-29 Thread Wendy Smoak
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > me too! ;-) And I like to have a minimal zip file: just one version of > every core plugin and one version every direct or indirect dependency > - not 4 versions of commons-collections, 4 versions of > commons-logging, 3

Re: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-11-29 Thread Wendy Smoak
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Alex Athanasopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the most annoying problems I ran into with maven was when I setup a > central mirror containing my old local repository, deleted my local > repository, and then tried to rebuild it by doing a build. A local r

Re: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-11-29 Thread Paul Benedict
I think Maven should download and configure itself with a list of mirrors on first execution. Why leave this up to the users? I bet most will likely not care to change. Paul On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Alex Athanasopou

Re: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-11-30 Thread Wim Deblauwe
+1 for that 2008/11/29 Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think Maven should download and configure itself with a list of > mirrors on first execution. Why leave this up to the users? I bet most > will likely not care to change. > > Paul > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL

Re: [Public service announcement] mirrors of Central and considerate repo use

2008-12-01 Thread Alex Athanasopoulos
Thanks. This sheds some light to my darkness, and may explain why my home-made maven mirror wasn't working properly. Alex On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Alex Athanasopoulos > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of the