Hi all,
As you know bits.netbeans.org currently redirects requests for old
Oracle NetBeans Maven artifacts (http://bits.netbeans.org/maven2) to the
old Oracle Maven repository.
This repository may be decomissioned soon. The repository hosts
artifacts for (at least) 21 Sun/Oracle NetBeans releases [1], which in
turn represent several hundred thousand files and directories, many of
which have unknown licenses.
It seems we have currently two lines of thought:
A) Some of us have shown interest in keeping these around, because "some
users" still depend on those binaries for their builds.
B) Some of us, on the contrary, think that these "some users" should
clone the repository locally to ensure their own reproducible builds
(possibly using a mirror repository of some kind).
Proposed plans I can remember from other threads:
P1) Upload old binaries to Maven Central, this has been requested six
months ago, with little progress:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-19735
P2) Instruct "some users" to set up a repository of their own to ensure
caching and reproducible builds of their stuff. Possibly with a blog entry.
P3) Ask for permission to OSUOSL, and then conform a team to upload
those hundred thousand files to OSUOSL, so they pay for the storage and
the bandwidth.
Discuss:
So please state your preferred plan (or add any other plans you can
think of) and, if migration to new servers is required, please state
your interest in helping out with the migration.
Thanks
Antonio
P.S.: Migration/hosting to a new server may require Oracle's permission,
I imagine (I'm not sure on this, though).
[1]
RELEASE69 dates from 2011, RELEASE 82 is from 2016.
RELEASE69 RELEASE691 RELEASE70 RELEASE701 RELEASE71 RELEASE711
RELEASE712 RELEASE72 RELEASE721 RELEASE73-BETA RELEASE73-BETA2 RELEASE73
RELEASE731 RELEASE74-BETA RELEASE74 RELEASE80-BETA RELEASE80 RELEASE801
RELEASE802 RELEASE81 RELEASE82
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