Hi, I just released the staged artifacts to the Apache release repository. With the next sync to Maven central of this repository our release artifacts will be available from Maven central.
I have also updated our website as Rupert suggested. IMO we can publish the new site with the release downloads. Best, - Fabian 2012/5/8 Fabian Christ <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > 2012/5/8 Rupert Westenthaler <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fabian Christ >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Users that do want to use Stanbol artifacts will typically not need >> any data bundles. >> Users that want to run a Stanbol server will most likely the stable or >> Full launcher. So they will also not be affected by this. >> >> So only users that want to install a additional bundle (e.g. the >> german POS model) and users that want to configure their own launcher >> will be affected by this. >> >> Can we provide the data bundles as convenience binary download on the >> Stanbol webpage? Maybe we could prepare a script similar to the >> "apache-stanbol-0.9.0-incubating-deps" so that users can easily >> download and install the data bundles to the local repository. > > +1, this is exactly what I also had in mind. > >>> The launchers are excluded because IMO the Maven central repository is >>> not meant to be used for such artifacts. We could prepare a launcher >>> based on the 0.9.0-incubating release and offer it as a convenience >>> binary download on our website. >>> >> >> +1 assuming that this will replace the link to the IKS dev server? > > Yes. Once we have our own launchers prepared, we can remove the link to > dev.iks. > >> I would suggest: >> >> * to include the download of the most current source release directly >> to the main download page > > +1, I will add that. > >> * for the link to the maven central repository you could use >> >> http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g:"org.apache.stanbol" >> >> as this should directly show the list of all Stanbol artifacts. > > +1, I will change that. > >> * the link to the launchers still points to a page that links to the >> IKS dev server. I think this will be replaced with a page referring to >> files that are hosted at Apache, right? > > Yes. > >> * add downloads for the data bundles (if possible) > > +1 > >> * could we also use the Stanbol homepage to provide binary artifacts >> of some of the demonstrations.e.g. the artifacts of the ehealth demo >> currently available under >> http://dev.iks-project.eu/downloads/stanbol-indices/ehealth/. > > IMO we can do that. We just have to ensure that we separate such > convenience downloads from our official source releases. I have to > figure out where such kind of download could be placed on the apache > server. I am not sure if the www.apache.org/dist folders can be used > for this because the site says: "The directories linked below contain > current software releases from the Apache Software Foundation > projects." And such binaries are not software releases by definition. > > -- > Fabian > http://twitter.com/fctwitt -- Fabian http://twitter.com/fctwitt
