fwiw we do this with jetty and its awesome... the support for staging is awesome...makes life and votes and things like that very simple
cheers, jesse -- jesse mcconnell [email protected] On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:41, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to propose that we use Apache's Nexus repository infrastructure to > release our future versions on Maven repositories. > It's used by a large number of Maven based Apache projects now, and it's the > recommended way of uploading releases to Maven Repositories, as described on > the "Releasing A Maven Project" Guide [1]. > > I think we've reach the limit with deployments on people.apache.org... My > last deployment of Studio for version 1.5.2 took more than four hours (!!). > > I talked with Chris Custine on that subject and we would probably have a much > better performance with Nexus. It also have pretty neat features like > stagging that would allow us to upload artifacts and approve (or deny) them > later, which could be interesting when voting a release. > > However, there's seem to be one "drawback" in the fact that once the project > is moved to Nexus, deployment on people.apache.org are disabled. All > deployments must be done on Nexus. > More information on this on this at INFRA-1896 [2]. > > I would really like that we discuss that all together and maybe we could > launch a vote to move to Nexus after this discussion. > > WDYT? > > Thanks, > Pierre-Arnaud > > > [1] - http://maven.apache.org/developers/release/apache-release.html > [2] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1896
