Martin,

And you would not want to use something @ eclipse that didn't have the
staging functionality that exists on oss.sonatype.org correct?

cheers,
jesse

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Martin Taal <mt...@elver.org> wrote:

>  I agree with Jesse...
>
> Maybe it is best to take maven.eclipse.org down, but don't do anything
> else unless someone takes responsibility and there is funding to do so.
>
> I currently publish EMF Texo/Teneo and EMF jars through sonatype to get
> them on maven.central. It works fine, but I find it strange that eclipse
> projects have to use a 3rd party to get their code on maven central. I
> would expect eclipse.org to provide a service similar to sonatype...
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> gr. Martin
>
>  With Regards, Martin Taal
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> On 01/31/2013 02:32 PM, Jesse McConnell wrote:
>
> I really don't understand the point of resetting it if there is not a
> clear understanding of what roll it will serve within the organization
> moving forward and a recommended path for how projects will interact with
> it.
>
>  If it is only going to be a proxy for maven central, then that is fine
> and you should go for it, but if you're planning on having projects
> actually deploy to it and/or build out the story for syncing to maven
> central then all of that should be ironed out ahead of time and wired up
> accordingly.
>
>  Maven repositories are meant to be durable and exist forever, unlike
> orbit repositories that are transitory and exist for small windows of time.
>  If you screw something up with Orbit then no biggy, it will eventually
> just disappear and problem solved.  With a maven repository once it is
> released it is locked away for time eternal, which is why I am such a
> strong proponent of having staging repositories so upon release you can
> give things a pre-flight check before releasing it and locking it down.
>
>  Once you set this up and take ownership of it you are making a contract
> with anyone that uses it that you will support the stuff in there from that
> point on.  None of this disappearing repository stuff where you check out
> an old tag and some repository you built against is now missing and perhaps
> replaced with a different version of some dependency.
>
>  cheers,
> jesse
>
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> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Thanh Ha <thanh...@eclipse.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Per Bug 394792 I'm looking at moving maven.eclipse.org to become a
>> managed service at Eclipse. I plan on tackling this issue soon and was
>> wondering if taking this server down would affect any projects?
>>
>> Some things we'd like to do is update the Nexus server version as well as
>> restart the service from a fresh configuration, essentially start over.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Thanh
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