I'm not sure why this needs a vote. Just do it.

Ralph

On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Brian E. Fox wrote:

As proposed in separate threads[1][2] and Infra jira[3], we have setup a
new zone and repository manager for hosting Apache artifacts at
https://repository.zones.apache.org. The service is now setup and
several releases of Maven are already staged there.



The initial idea was to use LDAP for committer auth/authz, but it isn't
ready yet. In the meantime, a new security realm has been created and
all Apache committers can log in to the system using their credentials. As each project comes over, we will use the existing svn group mappings
to port the users into the correct group.



To complete the process of using this for Maven artifacts, the following
needs to be done:

1)      Configure the new location as a sync source to Central.

2)      Map the rest of the Maven PMC and committer accounts into the
Maven Group

3) Move the artifacts from People.apache.org for org/apache/ maven/*
over to the hosted repository

4)      Update documentation on how to release, stage and promote

5)      Adjust the Parent pom to use the new urls for distribution
management for both snapshots and releases

6)      Release parent poms, update snapshots etc.



For the time being, we can leave the snapshots in place at p.a.o and
simply start deploying new versions to the zone. We can setup a proxy of
the old snapshot and put this into a group with the new one and users
can migrate over to the new snapshot url and eventually we can move the
snapshots over.



We are working with Apache Infra to get a machine neutral dns for this
[4] and also an official https certificate[5] so hopefully those will
happen shortly, specifically the dns before we update all the poms.



The migration of this would happen project by project, with hopefully
Maven leading the way.



[1]
http://www.nabble.com/-Proposal--Use-Nexus-to-actively-manage-the-Apache
-repository-tt21759239.html#a21759239

[2] Apache Infra list - I believe there are not public archives of this

[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1885

[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1890

[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1891



So lets vote:

+1 Yes, lets lead the way at ASF with a better staging and releasing
process

+0 shrug

-1 No, I like managing my artifacts by hand.



----------------------

Brian Fox

Apache Maven PMC

http://blogs.sonatype.com/brian/





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