On 10 Jun 07, at 8:51 AM 10 Jun 07, sharrissf wrote:
Many projects like to keep various kinds of statistics. Sourceforge
does some
of that.
You mean akin to google analytics?
A repository redirect
doesn't sound much like complex functionality to me. It's just
returning the
location of a repository
that contains the download. Seems simple to me but then again, I
didn't
write the code or do the design.
It's simply an Apache webserver serving up the content.
In my opinion, if it has this feature then it can become ubiquitous. A
network of repostiories for people to put stuff downloadable for
maven with
a directory service in the middle. I haven't run any statistics but I
suspect a whole bunch of the jars people use can't be gotten
directly, even
from ibiblio/repo1, because the owners won't hand over that last
bit of
control.
They can have their repositories for their own development but when
it comes to working for everyone else I believe the only real
solution is pushing it to central. Why? Because most of the
repositories setup by others tend to be crap, not managed, and things
come and go which makes them completely unstable. For example, I have
already seen release POMs being created that list repositories
listing dependencies that are no longer available in those
repositories rendering that release POM completely useless. Simply a
function of making thing work for their projects, and inadvertently
screwing everyone else. A network of repositories is nice in theory,
hasn't work out so well in practice and really the central repository
is not that terribly big and we'll make it easy for people to push to
the central repository.
But stats for projects is something we can definitely improve upon.
Cheers,
Steve
Jason van Zyl-2 wrote:
On 9 Jun 07, at 8:58 PM 9 Jun 07, sharrissf wrote:
I was wondering if it would be possible to post a redirect to
ibiblio that
would take someone to a different maven repository to find what
they are
looking for. Sort of making ibiblio both a repository and a
directory
service for finding the proper repository for software?
Ibibilio is being phased out and for Maven 2.x Ibiblio isn't used
much at all. The most recent releases of Maven 1.x also don't use
Ibiblio. Everything goes to our central repository machine which is:
http://repo1.maven.org
That said the plan for that machine is that it always remain a simple
web-based repository, there will never be any sort of applications
running on it.
What do you need as anything that is OSS in nature should be pushed
to the central repository. We're shooting to have the one intact
repository be mirrored all over the world.
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