Early warning: bintray is going away, deb/rpm packages will have to move

[Joan Touzet]

Hello everyone,

One month ago, we were informed that JFrog are shutting down Bintray - a
service we currently use to host our .deb and .rpm packages for Debian
and Ubuntu, & CentOS and RHEL respectively. (Win/Mac downloads are now
provided by Neighbourhoodie.)

New uploads to bintray will be disabled end of March, and the service
will be taken offline as of May 1st. This doesn't give us a lot of time
to migrate, but the work to move the repository is not extensive.

While ASF Infra hasn't provided a replacement for us yet , as soon as
something is identified, I'll let the community know.

Here's the INFRA ticket to follow:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-21376

-Joan "packages packages packages" Touzet

[Joan Touzet]

Hello everyone,

ASF Infra has once again come through for us. We'll be moving to the
JFrog Artifactory service. There will be a single, simple URL change to
the documentation to access the new repositories.

Once we're sure we have update access to the new repos, we'll update our
documentation tags so that docs.couchdb.org and our website list the
correct URLs to the new repositories.

Finally, we'll update our Docker containers to build from the new repos
as well.

Over on the developer side, our upload scripts for new builds will need
to be updated for the new system's API.

I'll email again when all of this is taken care of.

Cheers,
Joan

[Joan Touzet]

Hello again,

It turns out that I didn't read the notice from Bintray carefully
enough. The notice says that today, and April 26th, the service will
experience a forced "brown out" to let users know the service is going
offline at the end of the month.

This means you won't be able to install our packages today between 6AM
and 2PM Pacific Daylight Time.

I'm accelerating efforts to move to the new system with Infra's help,
and will be focused on this work this week.

-Joan