41 messages in net.java.dev.hudson.devRe: Migration from java.net| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Oct 2, 2009 2:03 pm | |
| Stephen Connolly | Oct 2, 2009 2:21 pm | |
| Andrew Bayer | Oct 2, 2009 2:33 pm | |
| Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Oct 2, 2009 2:40 pm | |
| Dean Yu | Oct 2, 2009 2:49 pm | |
| Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Oct 2, 2009 3:01 pm | |
| Alan Harder | Oct 2, 2009 3:09 pm | |
| Stephen Connolly | Oct 2, 2009 3:16 pm | |
| Frederic Jean | Oct 2, 2009 3:25 pm | |
| Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Oct 2, 2009 3:35 pm | |
| Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Oct 2, 2009 3:44 pm | |
| Andrew Bayer | Oct 2, 2009 3:57 pm | |
| R. Tyler Ballance | Oct 2, 2009 3:59 pm | |
| Jason Chaffee | Oct 2, 2009 4:18 pm | |
| Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Oct 2, 2009 4:30 pm | |
| Jorg Heymans | Oct 3, 2009 5:25 am | |
| Joti | Oct 3, 2009 6:40 am | |
| Joti | Oct 3, 2009 6:40 am | |
| Jorg Heymans | Oct 4, 2009 12:58 pm | |
| Benson Margulies | Oct 4, 2009 3:24 pm | |
| Stephen Connolly | Oct 4, 2009 11:47 pm | |
| Olivier Lamy | Oct 5, 2009 12:16 am | |
| Jorg Heymans | Oct 5, 2009 12:31 am | |
| Jorg Heymans | Oct 5, 2009 12:37 am | |
| Benson Margulies | Oct 5, 2009 3:52 am | |
| Stephen Connolly | Oct 5, 2009 7:43 am | |
| Michael Donohue | Oct 5, 2009 8:05 am | |
| Edelson, Justin | Oct 5, 2009 8:40 am | |
| Jason van Zyl | Oct 5, 2009 8:43 am | |
| Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Oct 5, 2009 9:48 am | |
| Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Oct 5, 2009 9:54 am | |
| Andrew Bayer | Oct 5, 2009 1:06 pm | |
| Benson Margulies | Oct 5, 2009 1:52 pm | |
| Stephen Connolly | Oct 5, 2009 2:46 pm | |
| Jorg Heymans | Oct 6, 2009 10:25 am | |
| Andrew Bayer | Oct 6, 2009 10:36 am | |
| Julien Renaut | Oct 6, 2009 10:49 am | |
| Jorg Heymans | Oct 6, 2009 1:26 pm | |
| Jorg Heymans | Oct 6, 2009 1:30 pm | |
| Edelson, Justin | Oct 6, 2009 1:34 pm | |
| Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Oct 6, 2009 2:55 pm |
| Subject: | Re: Migration from java.net | |
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| From: | Jorg Heymans (jorg...@gmail.com) | |
| Date: | Oct 3, 2009 5:25:23 am | |
| List: | net.java.dev.hudson.dev | |
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohs...@sun.com> wrote:
As we know, lately java.net has been suffering constant performance problems and minor outages. Because of this, the topic of moving the project from java.net has been a recurring topic on this mailing list, dating back at least before JavaOne 2009.
And this week, java.net had the biggest outage ever. It rendered the entire site inaccessible for about 3 days, and the site is still inaccessible to many users in Europe, Latin America, Russia, and Asia, for which we still have no ETA as of this writing.
During this period, plugin downloads and updates were unavailable, new users weren't able to try out Hudson, and committers weren't able to push changes. Furthermore, because of a problematic code in Hudson, this outage rendered Hudson installations in the wild unconfigurable [1].
What I'm hearing from the Hudson community is that this is just not tolerable. So I think it's time to move off from java.net --- This is putting me into a very hard position, but I think I have no other choice, really.
The hard part is to figure out the migration plan. This is where I invite the community for suggestions and discussions.
Kohsuke, thanks a billion for finally sharing your thoughts on this. As i've said a few times in the past, i cannot agree more on migrating away from java.net - let's get Hudson flying again !
As to the currently suggested alternatives I must say that Kenai looks good at first sight but i'm wondering if Hudson really needs to be the guinea pig for a new OSS hosting offering ? It seems to still be very much 'work in progress' (correct me if i'm wrong) and i don't know if Hudson should take another potentially bumpy road after the java.net one. Also, do we know what will happen to Kenai once the Oracle deal is completed ? Perhaps something to take into consideration.
Has anybody given thought to code.google.com as base for hosting ? Piggybacking the google infrastructure services behemoth is bound to keep us up to date with some of the latest and greatest in development tools and collaboration. It might not have all the features upfront in the way that we require but it wouldn't hurt to investigate i think. I'm willing to put in some time to check out the infrastructure and features and try to match them to what we require, unless ofcourse there are severe objections upfront against hosting anything at google ?
Other than that, i'm ofcourse offering any evening/weekend time required to help out in the move, regardless what the decision is.
Cheers, Jorg