I discovered this myself recently with another project. I used to update the site by uploading a tar.gz, deflating it, and then use a symlink to atomically switch to it. Without ssh access, I had no choice to use rsync or sftp. Either option sucks because it is painfully slow. I also lose the atomic switch option, so during this time the site links are inconsistent and broken.
SF cited abuse for getting rid of ssh access, which is a fine reason, but to provide no good alternative is unacceptable. I personally see this as the beginning of the end of SourceForge. Oh well, you get what you pay for. Stephen Colebourne wrote: > All, > Today, I had intended to release new versions of joda-time-hibernate, > jodat-time-jsptags and joda-time. This has not occurred as sourceforge > has removed project SSH shell access, rendering it incredibly difficult > to actually update the project website. > > The joda-time-hibernate release 1.1 has occurred and is available for > download, however the website is not updated (and cannot currently be). > > The removal of this access by sourceforge is delberate, however its > impact is serious. One option is to spend days trying to work out how on > earch to retool to get everything working again. I use windows, and unix > command line tools are not a world that excites me in the slightest, > even were I believe the new sourceforge toolset to be viable. > > The second option is to issue no more releases of joda-time or sub-projects. > > Frankly, right now I'm more inclined to the latter option. I do not have > the time or patience to waste on admin crap - I have little enough spare > time as it is. > > Should anyone wish to volunteer to rewrite the whole build process > (probably involving changing maven 1 to 2, working out what means > sourceforge now accepts and how the site can be updated without > destroying the valuable history of the last 7 years already uploaded > there) then please let me know. > > As you might guess, right now, I'm pretty hacked off. > > Stephen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
