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<a class="user-hover" rel="ian@iay.org.uk" id="email_ian@iay.org.uk" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=ian%40iay.org.uk" style="color:#326ca6;">Ian Young</a>
created <img src="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/images/icons/issuetypes/task.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Task"> <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/JPAR-45'>JPAR-45</a>
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<a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/JPAR-45'><strong>replace Subversion externals with alternative mechanism</strong></a>
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<strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Affects Versions:</strong>
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<a class="user-hover" rel="putmanb@shibboleth.net" id="email_putmanb@shibboleth.net" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=putmanb%40shibboleth.net" style="color:#326ca6;">Brent Putman</a>
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<strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Created:</strong>
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20/Dec/13 3:40 PM
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<strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Description:</strong>
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>We currently binding all projects in the V3 stack to a single set of Eclipse preferences by making each project's <tt>.settings</tt> directory a Subversion external.</p>
<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>One problem with this is that it makes it impossible for an individual project or module to differ from those settings in any way, no matter how appropriate it might be.</p>
<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>A second disadvantage is that in some environments the refreshing of all these Subversion externals is an extremely slow process.</p>
<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Finally, Subversion externals of this kind can't be adequately modelled using Git submodules, so the system makes it harder for us to switch to Git when the time comes.</p>
<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>We should figure out a system to replace the Subversion externals and migrate to that. One option would be a set of scripts in the parent project which copied down initial preferences from resources in the parent project. It might be useful to stage this in some way through things like the IdP and OpenSAML parent projects if we felt that common preferences could be shared at that level but not the global level.</p>
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<a style="color:#326ca6;" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/JPAR">Java Parent Project</a>
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<img src="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/images/icons/priorities/major.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Major"> Major
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<a class="user-hover" rel="ian@iay.org.uk" id="email_ian@iay.org.uk" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=ian%40iay.org.uk" style="color:#326ca6;">Ian Young</a>
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