Download repository for iDempiere

[Carlos Antonio Ruiz Gómez]

Hi community,

iDempiere has more than four years rolling, and until now the main download repository have been the jenkins server (sponsored by the BX Service).

I was concerned about two things:

1 - jenkins server was not intended as a download repository (is not mirrored, bandwidth can be a problem)

2 - we don't have statistics about downloads - yes - it's unfortunate not having statistics for the past 4 years   :-(

But, anyways, detected an issue is better to solve it than to cry  :-)

Since yesterday I set up jenkins server to move the daily releases to sourceforge area.

There are four new areas of release on sourceforge:

Version 2.1 daily at

https://sourceforge.net/projects/idempiere/files/v2.1/daily-server/

Development version (aka 3.0) at

https://sourceforge.net/projects/idempiere/files/devel-3.0/daily-server/

And next to those folders you can find also the daily swing client for those versions.

NOTE there is also a new area of release that will be announced soon by Dirk Niemeyer   ;-)

Correspondingly I changed the downloads page on our website:

http://www.idempiere.org/downloads

So, we can think that since now we'll have better download speeds and better statistics, enjoy.

Regards,

Carlos Ruiz

[Carlos Collazos]

Hi Carlos:

Lately I've read that sourceforge is being abandoned I mean there's a campaign for changing from sourceforge to another repository (http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/) (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2938017/why-big-open-source-projects-are-fleeing-sourceforges-free-software-hub.html) .

Most of them are going to git. What do you think?

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[Carlos Antonio Ruiz Gomez]

Yes Carlos, we're aware about all the bad press that sourceforge suffered.

In principle I think is not 100% fair as the hated and criticized junkware download from sourceforge is an opt-in for projects, and obviously we're not interested in such practices.

We tried a few alternatives but still sourceforge is the best (by far) download repository for big files, our download files are almost 3GB - and in principle that can be generated daily (more like to be generated weekly).


Git is a different thing - is more intended as a repository for code (replacement for mercurial), not for download.

Regards,

Carlos Ruiz

[Karl Kuhrman]

I also think GitHub is a better choice. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/its-time-to-go-away-sourceforge/

Karl

[Heng Sin Low]

iDempiere source is hosted at bitbucket, not sourceforge. We only use sourceforge as file server for the project so don't mix the 2 thing up.

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