Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
> Craig McClanahan wrote:
>
>> One technical aspect is that the infrastructure for this repository is
>> based on https: rather than http:. In addition to making transactions
>> slower than they would otherwise be, Maven seems to have problems
>> accessing https repositories through a proxy (such as from behind the
>> Sun firewall). Synchronizing to ibiblio would deal with this, as well
>> as reduce configuration setup of having to specify the java.net
>> repository.
>
>
> We are talking with Maven folks to set up a synchronization to ibiblio.
>
>
> On a related note (which is the real subject of this e-mail), I think we
> really want to have an externally-visible machine that we can control.
We have an external machine that hosts hudson -
http://glassfishbuildtools.sun.com:8000.
> If we have such a machine, we can use that for...
>
> 1. hosting maven repository (by aliasing maven.java.net to that machine)
> with HTTP traffic, with rsync that let ibiblio sync up easily.
> 2. hosting CVS news (cvs-news.glassfish.org or something)
> 3. hosting Hudson (hudson.glassfish.org or something)
>
> I forgot when but I thought at point people have been talking about
> exactly such a machine (I remember seeing e-mail between sharing that
> with planetjdk.org.)
>
> I wonder if we can get such a system...
>