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Clarify lack of solution for sources in production
In the new devops page: https://docs.conan.io/2/devops/using_conancenter.html you say:
Additionally, when building recipes from source, this requires retrieving the source packages (typically zip or tar files) from remote servers outside of the control of ConanCenter. Occasionally, these too can suffer from unscheduled downtime.
This is true, but the context is best practices for improving reliability - for which the page has no recommendation and solution for improving reliability. In other words, even if I fork conan center and build all my own packages, if that recipe pulls sources from a zip or repository on a third party server then that is a point of failure.
It would be good to clarify that that is a continuing risk to users even after following recommendations. Potentially it would also be good to track a potential solution to this. One could imagine that sources could somehow be cached in artifactory...but I admit it's not a simple thing.
This is true, but the context is best practices for improving reliability - for which the page has no recommendation and solution for improving reliability. In other words, even if I fork conan center and build all my own packages, if that recipe pulls sources from a zip or repository on a third party server then that is a point of failure.
It would be good to clarify that that is a continuing risk to users even after following recommendations. Potentially it would also be good to track a potential solution to this. One could imagine that sources could somehow be cached in artifactory...but I admit it's not a simple thing.
This feature is about to be launched 🙂 We are already using it in production in ConanCenter. Keep tuned!
A link will be added to the docs here when it is released, and a subsection in the docs in this same Devops guide section will be added.
Hi @rconde01, thanks a lot for your patience! We've now released https://docs.conan.io/2/devops/backup_sources/sources_backup.html - please feel free to read it and ask any questions/suggestions you might have, thanks!
