On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Related to this, it's really important to get jars into Maven Central. See > this post from Sonatype: > > http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/03/why-external-repos-are-being-phased-out-of-central/ > > External non Central repos are being phased out. There are several ways to > get 3rd party jars > into Central, and yes, it's a pain, but IMHO too, a necessary one. We > shouldn't have deps to > non Central repositories. > > In OODT we are down to like 1 of these (or 2 at max) after having TONs coming > into Apache. > In Tika, I believe we have 0 (thanks to Jukka and others). So I think we > should strive to get > there in Airavata. > > Whether it should block a release however, versus something that should be > done before > we exit the Incubator, is up for debate. I don't feel strongly that this > should block an Incubator > release, however I do feel strongly it should be dealt with before we get out > of the Incubator.
Thanks Chris. This is laborious task for sure, but in the interest of speeding up the build and to adhere to compliance, I vote for getting rid of this now. Unless some one else can get it to it before tomorrow, I will start on this one tomorrow and will take care of it. If you have pointers to any other documentation on getting external jars into maven central please send them. Suresh > > Cheers, > Chris > > On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:19 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 > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >
