The empty password issue should have been fixed already. It should involve updating redback:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/REDBACK-248 On Apr 17, 2012 9:03 AM, "Brett Porter" <br...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 17/04/2012, at 9:50 PM, Louis Smith wrote: > > > I also agree on the 1.4.1GA. I will make time to help on that - but I > will > > need your guidance. > > Great! > > > > > From my memory, I recall that it will need (at least) > > > > - the fixed version of redback for blank passwords to LDAP > > Do you recall the issue # here? > > Probably the first thing to try is to see if Redback 1.3 is suitable to > drop in. Trunk is currently looking at 1.3-M2-SNAPSHOT, so it needs to be > updated. There may be some incompatible changes (and certainly 1.4 is far > more significant). If that becomes a problem, the other option is to > release off the 1.3-Mx branch with the required changes. > > > - database update scripts for 1.3.x to 1.4.x ( I may have those in my > > archive from when I did my upgrades to 1.4.x) > > I'm sure that this just works automatically - I did it on a few occasions. > > > > > I would very much prefer getting my clients up to the 1.4.x branch than > > converting them off the apache stack to mercurial/hudson. > > > > So... how do I get started? > > Once the redback snapshot is sorted out and any fixes you're willing to > integrate are in, it should be ready to go. > > The other thing people can do to help is identifying JIRA issues that > either can or should be fixed (whether in this or a subsequent point > release), and if possible helping with that. > > > Got some docs for me to read on how to push a > > release? > > That's something I can work with you on - > http://continuum.apache.org/development/release.html > > Most of that is straightforward - the main work there is in testing and > doing things like release notes. > > - Brett > > -- > Brett Porter > br...@apache.org > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > >
