It seems like a free, artifact storage application with a nice GUI for jars, wars, rpms, etc. is really needed given that SVN is a bit old and Artifactory and Nexus (can be) are quite expensive. So I am confused as to why Apache Archiva never really went anywhere? I know the main engineer just released a new version just before the time of this writing and I am grateful for his time and effort. Nonetheless, it seems like this product never really caught on for build and devops teams even though it should have...
Well it's hard without more contributors :-(
Please note the project is now using git https://github.com/apache/archiva
I'm who you call the main engineer. I was paid few years ago to work on this project but now I do it during my spare time (and I have limited spare time :-( ).
Why not contributing/helping? :-)