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Greenstone is Open Source Software, and we encourage developers from the community to contribute. Check out the developer guide on the wiki.

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The greenstone source code is kept under version control in our subversion repository.

Latest commit

r42322 by anupama @ 7.46 pm, 2nd September
Phase 3 for allowing customisable usersDB names: we found it has to be done on a per-tomcat context basis and can't be done per LibraryServlet after all (so not using local changes made to LibraryServlet and I'd already rolled back servlet.properties.svn changes). This commit follows Kathy's vision of how changing it at context level is to work: set the users.db.name property in build.properties (default name is the old usersDB), then this gets copied into the tomcat context file greenstone.xml and into global.properties, from where it can now be loaded in the classes that need it (DepositorAction, services Authentication and UserTracker). DerbyWrapper modified to allow creating the specified database if it doesn't exist instead of assuming the defaultname of usersDB. GlobalProperties updated with convenience function to quickly return the new users DB name property. ModifyUsersDB.java needed to take system property gsdl3.datahome now (passed in also from build.xml) besides the existing gsdl3.writablehome (used for locating GlobalProperties) in order to locate the users database which is now in data/etc. Next task: a different task will be to merge writable data home with data home and so to for writable extension home with extension home: Kathy has thought it through and found that data home and extension home will always be writable.

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Latest Reported Bug

#961: Moving to bundling JRE8, compiling releases with JDK8 & ant 1.9.4

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