Hi, On 12 May 2015 at 00:34, Brent Atkinson <brent.atkin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings, > > On multiple fronts I discovered that the project's dependency on Redback is > a blocker for using Java 8 and configuring the application for the Servlet > 3 spec. There are also larger issues with authentication, authorization and > user/role management that will need to be addressed to improve the overall > quality of Continuum going forward. > > It is not clear what the best strategy is for continuing: > > * Is it feasible to continue to use redback since its migration to a > sub-component of Archiva? > Note the redback version as archiva subcomponent is now without any jsp related technologies. > * How difficult would this re-integration be in terms of required changes > or level or effort? > need to add back jsp/tags > > If this is a considerable task, it may make more sense to patch (or > recompile) the old version to unblock forward progress in the short term, > while working to migrate to something like Spring Security in later > releases. However, while trying to evaluate this as a possibility I had > trouble locating the historical versions. > > * Where is the source code for the older versions (specifically, 1.3-M3)? > Here http://svn.codehaus.org/redback/redback/ Take care as codehaus will be soon shutdown. I guess it's in branches as redback-1.3-Mx Maybe this can be hosted as a branch in archiva redback git repo? > > Regards, > Brent > -- Olivier Lamy http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
