Before we create a vote thread to consolidate grails-spring-security into grails-core, grails-spring-security depends on org.apache.grails:grails-redis and org.grails.plugins:grails-mail and given the policies we apply to grails-core, I think both of those would have to be merged into grails-core, also.
Agree or disagree? James On 2026/05/18 12:04:43 James Daugherty wrote: > We briefly discussed this on the weekly, but I thought this deserves its > own thread: I would like to propose we merge grails-spring-security into > grails-core and its associated dependencies (means grails-redis). > > The reason we did not merge these before was the security build often hung > and took 2+ hours. Recently Mattias has worked to make that more stable. > It’s now running in 1-2min. > > We also have not done the best job releasing dependency updates on this > repo and by moving it into core we can ensure timely updates. We can > also easily identify dependencies that should really be in the bom. > > I would propose we move the 7.0 branch into 7.0.x so we can cease all > activity on spring security. > > What do others think? > > -James >
