Project Summary
Redback started as an attempt to clean away some of the more annoying security related components of web applications and centralize them into a simple to use framework. Some of the basic beliefs we started with where that authentication, authorization and user management were all basically separate concerns, sure there are points where they rub up against each other but those are pretty clear points and not worth mashing up whole discrete concepts together.
In a Nutshell, Redback...
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took an estimated 14 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2012
ending with its most recent commit about 3 years ago
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