Hi Ate, I fully agree with all of your concerns and I was intending to start a discussion on this and fix it. I will raise a JIRA. I should be able to handle this before calling the VOTE for the RC.
Thanks for pointing it out, Suresh On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Ate Douma wrote: > On 04/23/2012 01:28 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Jenkins is failing randomly trying to pull j2ssh jars from ibiblio - "Could >> not transfer artifact j2ssh:j2ssh-core:pom:0.2.9 from/to ibiblio >> (http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2): Error transferring file: >> Connection refused" >> >> Any alternative maven repo for these jars? > > Yeah: like maven central? > > I saw you later comment you now uploaded these to the ogce.m2.all maven repo > to 'fix' this. However IMO this is a bad practice if the *default* repository > (Maven Central) already provides these as well. > > It looks like airavata uses many 3rd party repositories for its build but I > doubt they are or should be needed in many/most cases. Also note that the > more repositories you need/configure, the longer a build will take... > > The problem here is that the maven central repository is not (also) defined > in the root pom which causes maven to *first* check those defined > repositories *before* it will fall-back to Maven Central. > > As a test, I successfully build airavata with no local repository and a local > settings.xml which enables/predefines central and *disables* ibiblio, which > indeed is notoriously slow and AFAIK nobody should use or even need anymore: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0";> > <profiles> > <profile> > <id>default-profile</id> > <activation> > <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault> > </activation> > <repositories> > <repository> > <id>ibiblio</id> > <name>ibiblio Repository</name> > <url>http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2</url> > <releases><enabled>false</enabled></releases> > <snapshots><enabled>false</enabled></snapshots> > </repository> > <repository> > <id>central</id> > <name>Maven Central</name> > <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url> > <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases> > <snapshots><enabled>false</enabled></snapshots> > </repository> > </repositories> > </profile> > </profiles> > </settings> > > So, I strongly suggest removing the ibiblio repo from the airavata build all > together and probably also add the central repo as *first* in the root pom. > And it would also be smart to check/validate if possibly you can cleanup in > the ogce.m2.all repo... > > Also, I see usage of a personal repository from Lahiru: > > http://people.apache.org/~lahiru/maven-repo > > AFAIK this type of personal repositories on people.apache.org is not endorsed > and maybe even not allowed (already now or else in the future) by ASF Infra... > I'm not saying this is a blocker right now but why would this be needed in > the first place and why are the needed artifacts not available from a > general/central repository, preferably Maven Central? > > Thanks, Ate
