Why external Maven repositories are a bad idea (Software is too expensive to build cheaply...)

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Why external Maven repositories are a bad idea

Bandwidth costs to mirror Maven repositories: $50
File server to store it on: $1500
Developer effort to access the internal repository: $200
Having 20 developers sit around idle because you didn't mirror the java.net repository: priceless

With apologies to Mastercard.

Posted by Robert on April 5, 2007 9:09 AM | Permalink

Comments (3)

JJ Halloway:

You said it perfectly, the culprit of the above Mastercard story is you, not Maven.

Posted by JJ Halloway | April 5, 2007 10:10 AM

Posted on April 5, 2007 10:10

Robert:

I never said it wasn't me.

Posted by Robert | April 5, 2007 10:22 AM

Posted on April 5, 2007 10:22

Michael Neale:

hahahahaha...

yes you generally only make that mistake once ;) Shame it isn't trivially easy to create a local shared repo with one flick of the command line (I could be wrong).

But, in cases like that, there is only one thing you can do, one word, three letters: pub.

Posted by Michael Neale | April 6, 2007 3:09 PM

Posted on April 6, 2007 15:09