Re: bintray, an alternative for distribution

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

I asked INFRA for access to Bintray but never heard back from them - even opened a Jira.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/INFRA-9598

Regarding the cleaning up of the downloads:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-4431

Comments welcome.

Cheers,

-- Richard

On 28.04.2015, at 08:32, Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 27.04.2015, at 22:18, Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/27/2015 3:19 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
>>> On 27.04.2015, at 20:18, Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 4/23/2015 6:47 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
>>>>> We'd still have to distribute the binaries via the Apache system by foundation regulations, right?
>>>> Well, that's what Infra discussion seemed to be about- it seems they're
>>>> considering alternatives. 
>>> Well, let's try it out? If infra gives us access, we can manually copy over some of our artifacts, update the UIMA download page to point there and see what happens.
>> Do you want to take the lead on this?  :-)  I'm a bit underwater with other
>> things ...
> 
> No totally afloat here either, but I have requested to be added to the
> Apache org on Bintray to give it a try. 
> 
> My plan is to copy at least the UIMA Java SDK 2.7.0 binaries there and
> change the links on the download page to point to Bintray instead
> of Apache dist. 
> 
> Btw, we are having stuff accumulating on the downloads page... imho
> it should only list the latest versions of our packages and for older
> versions only offer a generic reference to the Apache archive.
> 
> I think the following changes should be made:
> 
> - Remove DUCC 1.0.0
> - Remove UIMA 2.6.0
> - Factor UIMA-AS 2.6.0 out into a separate download section
>  and mention that it is compatible with UIMA 2.7.0
>  (I guess that's what we tell people on the list, so it might
>  as well be made official on the downloads page).
> - Remove Apache UIMA Version 2.5.0
> - Remove Apache UIMA Version 2.4.2
> - Remove Apache UIMA Version 2.4.0
> 
> Now I wonder, we seem to have two spots for release files
> 
> [1] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/uima 
> [2] http://archive.apache.org/dist/uima/ 
> 
> Are these the same? Should releases be deleted from [1] if they are removed from the downloads page?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Richard
>