Re: [boost] Moving away from SourceForge

Subject: Re: [boost] Moving away from SourceForge
From: Diego Rodriguez-Losada (diego.rlosada_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-01-24 16:42:24

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Diego Rodriguez-Losada <
> diego.rlosada_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Diego Rodriguez-Losada <
> > > diego.rlosada_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Louis Dionne <ldionne.2_at_[hidden]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > As part of JFrog, I would like to offer Bintray services for this
> > > > migration. Bintray counts with several features that could be
> relevant
> > > for
> > > > the Boost community and users:
> > > >
> > > > * Not stagnating - 2 billion downloads a month and growing
> > > > * Backed up by Akamai – the most powerful CDN in the world for faster
> > > > downloads
> > > > * Watches and badges – uses can follow and get notifications when new
> > > > versions are released
> > > > * Organizations support – people that create and publish Boost can be
> > > part
> > > > of the organization with powerful permissions
> > > > * REST API – tooling around resolution and deployments of Boost, it's
> > > very
> > > > easy and powerful with Bintray
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bintray will sponsor the hosting, so no costs for the Boost
> community,
> > > in a
> > > > similar way as JFrog did for hosting the Mac OSX Homebrew binary
> > bottles.
> > > > We might be able to also provide support for executing the migration,
> > > > writing scripts for copying the artifacts from sourceforge, etc.
> > > >
> > >
> > > FYI.. We already use Bintray, and it was the first alternative I tried
> > > after evaluating various <https://bintray.com/boostorg>. But there
> where
> > > various problems we encountered to use it for general releases. The key
> > one
> > > being what Tom mentioned:
> > >
> > >  ===
> > > One thing that we found that couldn't be replicated at any of the other
> > > major OSS hosting sites was the ability to have the windows binaries in
> > the
> > > same location. These files are quite large (200MB x 12 visual studio
> > > version + 1.4GB for the combined archive), and none of the sites that
> we
> > > looked at could support them. There was also (I believe) a general
> > > consensus that we wanted to keep those at the same place as the source
> > > distribution.
> > > ===
> > >
> > > Is it possible to support that use case? As an example here are the
> files
> > > we are talking about we had problems with <
> > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.63.0/>.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Yes, the issue is that you probably hit the OSS quota, not prepared for
> > such large binaries.
> > Did you contact bintray for support on this?
> >
>
> I don't remember if I did.. I know I contacted them for various issues but
> don't know if that was one of them.
>
> The sponsoring would consist of raising the quota, specifically for the
> > Boost project.
> >
>
>
Hi again,

The quotas have been raised for bintray/boostorg organization, up to 100Gb
storage, 20Tb traffic and 2.5Gb file size.
It should be good for hosting the Windows binaries too in the same place.
Just a question (from my ignorance), why the 1.5Gb msvc-all archive?
The download stats clearly show a high preference for specific installers,
maybe that one could be dropped without much impact.

Please tell me if you have any other issues, feedback, or need further help.

Best,

Diego

>
> > I am working on the details and checking that there aren't other
> > limitations, I will contact back when I have more info.
>
>
> Great.
>
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