Interesting timing on this. We are in the process of rolling out the latest releases of Archiva and Continuum as part of the Software Development Infrastructure used at a government agency that is one of my key clients. We use the redback security so the developers can log in with their normal AD based credentials.
I also tasked 2 of my developers with looking at using Redback to use as the core of security for their Java apps that run the agency. Both felt that it wasn't "ready for prime time" for other usage - but Archiva and Continuum were ok as the SDI roles are managed within continuum at the project level anyway. If Redback were to "flesh out" the full RBAC robustly, then they would have been interested. We did have to apply the case sensitivity patch to Redback and rebuild everything - but other than that, we love the suite. (svn/maven/archiva/continuum/forrest). Please make sure that makes it into the next releases! Thanks - have a great holiday season everyone!! Louis On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Brett Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > (Apologies for cross-posting - replies are best sent back to d...@redback, > unless it's specific to one of the other projects). > > After initial attempts to gain external interest, some time has elapsed and > it seems obvious that Redback hasn't been used outside of Continuum and > Archiva. Further, it is unlikely to grow in the way they use it. I'm not > sure it makes sense to remain as a standalone project, and it appeals to me > to have all of the code under Apache. Less lists to subscribe to and more > consolidated activity makes sense to me too. > > It's also true that moving doesn't buy much immediate benefit other than > consolidation, so maybe it is fine where it is :) > > If it were to move, as it's unlikely to establish it's own community, I > don't think incubation would make sense. Instead, after clearing the IP, I > would suggest a subproject of either Continuum or Archiva. In terms of > committer overlap, the larger overlap of distinct committers is with > Continuum (Marica and Olivier) vs Archiva (James), with Marica being the > most recently active. > > Given that, I would think a subproject of Continuum makes sense - but that > we should agree that all Archiva committers should have commit access to it > and a binding vote on any releases. Does anyone feel strongly it should be > the other way around? > > What do others think? If it's worth doing I will call a formal vote. > > Cheers, > Brett > > -- > Brett Porter > [email protected] > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > > > > > -- Dr. Louis Smith, ThD Chief Technology Officer, Kyra InfoTech Colonel, Commemorative Air Force
