One of the frictions during jclouds releases is the presence of multiple jclouds-labs repositories. The intent of labs was to provide a nursery for new providers before moving into the main repo but instead has become an old-age home. Could we move the handful of providers that users care about into the main repo? We can either delete the labs providers or just stop releasing them.
Here are the top providers by downloads last month: $ sort -r -t'"' -k4 -n Downloads/stats_slices.csv | head "oauth","2513","0.11768286675214767" "googlecloud","2424","0.11351503431797028" "google-compute-engine","2371","0.11103305965662003" "openstack-glance","1997","0.09351877868175507" "openstack-neutron","1920","0.08991289883852005" "openstack-marconi","614","0.02875339426100254" "rackspace-cloudfiles","435","0.02037089131772518" "glacier","409","0.01915331929922104" "rackspace-cloudfiles-us","386","0.01807623915374279" "docker","348","0.016296712681651115" oauth, googlecloud, and google-compute-engine moved to the main repo in 2.0.0 and 2/3 of the downloads for openstack-glance and openstack-neutron are for 1.8.1! Compare with over 50,000 downloads per month of jclouds-core which suggests these labs providers are largely unused. -- Andrew Gaul http://gaul.org/
