On 10/26/06, James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With the hardware issues of people.apache.org lately its been a trying
week working on stuff in the incubator - maven builds have been
failing most of the week. We've also lost a few releases it seems
(XBean 2.7, ServiceMix 3.0 maybe others too) due to the reversal to an
old backup.
Am wondering, is it time to mirror the repos in people.apache.org so
we can insulate ourselves against future failures?
infrastructure historically have very real worries about the bandwidth
which would be consumed by lots of short lived releases being pushed
out to the full range of mirrors. the incubator historically has
issues about users becoming confused between full apache releases and
incubator releases. both forces pushed towards installing on
people.apache.org.
i'm strongly in favour of using a special subversion repository to
store releases of all kinds and maven repositories in particular. this
would allow pre-commit scripts to be run to check that the artifacts
complies with the requirements about signatures and checksums. it
would also give a complete history for all artifacts, log who uploaded
which artifacts and allow easy email messages to be sent whenever
changes are made to the repository. access could be limited to release
managers.
so, i would prefer to see incubator releases stored in a central
subversion repository and a zone managed by the IPMC used to host them
for download. perhaps a small number of select incubator-only mirrors
could be recruited. IMHO this would solve the worries over excessive
rsync bandwidth and the IPMCs concerns about isolation.
- robert
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