Hi, 2012/10/15 Julien Béti <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > I have installed Archiva 1.3.5 on Debian Squeeze using Tomcat 6.0.35 and > PostgreSQL 9.1, and I'm facing the issue reported ad MRM-1643 Error 500 when > browsing artefact group [1]. > > The solution would be to move to version 1.4-M3, but I has this Maven > Repository is to be used in a production environment, I would like to ask > few questions: > > - Is the LDAP support have been successfully tested yet? Looking at the > current version of the "./WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml" file, the LDAP > support seem to haven't been fully migrated (see TODO comment of Olivier > Lamy). LDAP support works as with previous version :-) (TODO is for adding more test it's more a TODO for me :-) but it's already tested in redback core). One of my goal is to improve/easy LDAP support for next versions.
I think some users reported issues with active directory (hard for me to test with env I have :-) ) > > - Do you think the upgrade from 1.4-M3 and later preview version to the > official one would be fully supported, or is there a major risk of painful > upgrade? Frankly, I don't see a lot of risks except better performance and a better ui :-) > > - The 1.3.x version used to use 2 databases: one for users and one for > artefacts. Browsing the 1.4-M3 documentation, the artifacts database is > obviously gone [2]. If true, where the artefacts information is now stored? By default we use now jcr (ie jackrabbit) > When upgrading from 1.3.x to 1.4-M3, is the current artefacts information > kept? Except if you add some custom metadatas to some artifacts ( the other part will be rebuilt) > > - Finally, do you have an idea when the official 1.4 release will be out? I > imagine that's a very frequent question, but I' haven't found the > information on the website nor on Jira, sorry if I missed it ;-) The qualifier is probably a "marketing" naming :-). My company use it in production and distribute it with their products (no issue has been reported) > > Thank you for your support, > > Kind Regards, > > Julien Béti. > > [1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM-1643 > [2] https://archiva.apache.org/docs/1.4-M3/adminguide/databases.html -- Olivier Lamy Talend: http://coders.talend.com http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
