[orbit-dev] Lifecycle of I-Build repositories?

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

For SWTBot, I'd like to consume directly I-Builds from Orbit.
However, I noticed that the I-Builds of Orbit disappear "magically", without any clear reason. For example, the only current remaining I-build is older than the last one (which contains a good enough version of hamcrest for me to go on). So can anyone tell me what is the lifecycle for those I-Builds?
As a suggestion of improvements for very-early adopters, I opened this enhancement request: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=409255

I know I could make a copy of a repo I like, but it's just one more thing to do which is just an indirection (target-platform definition would link to download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot instead of build.eclipse.org/orbit/I-build/) which make it less clear where does the stuff come from, and what is its "quality level".

Cheers,

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Mickael Istria
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