Uploaded release artifacts to Bintray

[Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>]

Hi,

I have uploaded all release artifacts I found in the dist spot to Bintray:

  https://bintray.com/apache/uima

The ASF has a premium account at Bintray. The idea here is that bintray tracks
downloads and that interested projects can thus see download counts for their
artifacts.

I am not terribly familiar with Bintray (in particular premium accounts) yet.
There seems to be a feature called "Products" that the ASF apparently does
not use yet. I am asking INFRA about it:

  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11631

So, theoretically a next step would be to change the UIMA downloads page
to direct downloads to Bintray instead of directing them to the ASF mirrors.
... or at maybe to set up a new downloads page that uses Bintray and keep
the old one as a fallback.

There is also one small thing that Bintray seems to reject any files that
end in ".sha1" - and we have those for all of our release artifacts - but
not on Bintray so far (the .md5 files are there). This is something I have
contacted JFrog about.

Cheers,

-- Richard

Re: Uploaded release artifacts to Bintray

[Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>]

> On 12.04.2016, at 00:08, Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for experimenting :-)
> 
> I found that the first link ..bintray.com/apache/uima) failed in my chrome
> browser (said shockwave stopped responding...) but worked in my Firefox browser.

I didn't experience such a thing yet. There is a "Contact" link at the bottom of
each page through which you can reach Bintray support. In my experience, they
are helpful and react quite quickly.

> I clicked on the uima-java-sdk link and after clicking around was able to
> download a file.

:)

> The main page has a wrench icon with the words "Set Me Up!"  If I click that, it
> gives a pop-up help on how to use curl to get the file.  Not sure what that has
> to do with "Set Me Up!", though.

Yeah, don't know either what this is for. They seem to be trying to advertise
their API-based access there.

Anyway, the way I was imagining to use this service was by having our downloads
page at uima.a.o link directly to the files on Bintray - not to the Bintray website.
So our users wouldn't see that normally. 

If we wanted to see the download numbers, we would go to the Bintray website and
look at them.

Cheers,

-- Richard

> Cheers. -M
> 
> 
> On 4/9/2016 4:29 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have uploaded all release artifacts I found in the dist spot to Bintray:
>> 
>>  https://bintray.com/apache/uima
>> 
>> The ASF has a premium account at Bintray. The idea here is that bintray tracks
>> downloads and that interested projects can thus see download counts for their
>> artifacts.
>> 
>> I am not terribly familiar with Bintray (in particular premium accounts) yet.
>> There seems to be a feature called "Products" that the ASF apparently does
>> not use yet. I am asking INFRA about it:
>> 
>>  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11631
>> 
>> So, theoretically a next step would be to change the UIMA downloads page
>> to direct downloads to Bintray instead of directing them to the ASF mirrors.
>> ... or at maybe to set up a new downloads page that uses Bintray and keep
>> the old one as a fallback.
>> 
>> There is also one small thing that Bintray seems to reject any files that
>> end in ".sha1" - and we have those for all of our release artifacts - but
>> not on Bintray so far (the .md5 files are there). This is something I have
>> contacted JFrog about.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> -- Richard
> 

Re: Uploaded release artifacts to Bintray

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

Thanks for experimenting :-)

I found that the first link ..bintray.com/apache/uima) failed in my chrome
browser (said shockwave stopped responding...) but worked in my Firefox browser.

I clicked on the uima-java-sdk link and after clicking around was able to
download a file.

The main page has a wrench icon with the words "Set Me Up!"  If I click that, it
gives a pop-up help on how to use curl to get the file.  Not sure what that has
to do with "Set Me Up!", though.

Cheers. -M


On 4/9/2016 4:29 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have uploaded all release artifacts I found in the dist spot to Bintray:
>
>   https://bintray.com/apache/uima
>
> The ASF has a premium account at Bintray. The idea here is that bintray tracks
> downloads and that interested projects can thus see download counts for their
> artifacts.
>
> I am not terribly familiar with Bintray (in particular premium accounts) yet.
> There seems to be a feature called "Products" that the ASF apparently does
> not use yet. I am asking INFRA about it:
>
>   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11631
>
> So, theoretically a next step would be to change the UIMA downloads page
> to direct downloads to Bintray instead of directing them to the ASF mirrors.
> ... or at maybe to set up a new downloads page that uses Bintray and keep
> the old one as a fallback.
>
> There is also one small thing that Bintray seems to reject any files that
> end in ".sha1" - and we have those for all of our release artifacts - but
> not on Bintray so far (the .md5 files are there). This is something I have
> contacted JFrog about.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Richard

Re: Uploaded release artifacts to Bintray

[Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>]

On 09.04.2016, at 22:29, Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> There is also one small thing that Bintray seems to reject any files that
> end in ".sha1" - and we have those for all of our release artifacts - but
> not on Bintray so far (the .md5 files are there). This is something I have
> contacted JFrog about.

Bintray supports says this is expected behavior. They do not take checksum
files, but generate checksums themselves.

-- Richard