Changing to https urls and adding docu.
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
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+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+Archiva Redback - Documentation
+===============================
+:toc:
+
+
+== How to build and publish the pages for the archiva web content
+
+This module and the children contain web content and project reports that can be published to the 
+archiva web site: https://archiva.apache.org
+
+The web content parts of this module and submodules are published to the path 
+
+  /redback/core
+
+=== Use the script
+
+There is a shell script +deploySite.sh+ which you can run to generate the site check and publish to 
+the remote repository. It works only on Linux, on other platforms you have to go the next section.
+
+The script is interactive, it asks you to confirm the publish after generation of the staging part.
+
+.Execute
+
+  ./deploySite.sh 
+
+All arguments are appended to the mvn calls.
+
+=== Run the mvn steps manually
+
+==== Building the pages
+
+You need enough free disk space to publish the web content. The archiva web site repository is big, 
+but the maven build will only checkout the necessary directories for this build (sparse checkout).
+
+For all the commands you have to change to this archiva-modules directory:
+
+  cd archiva/archiva-modules
+
+.The following creates the site to the staging folder
+
+  mvn clean site site:stage
+
+The result can be checked in 
+
+  archiva-modules/target/staging/ref/${project.version}
+
+with your browser.
+
+If you would like the use a local checkout of the archiva-web-content.git repository and not push directly
+to the remote repository, you may add this parameter:
+
+  -DsiteRepositoryUrl=scm:git:file:///${path-to-your-local-archiva}/archiva-web-content.git
+
+where +${path-to-your-local-archiva}+ is the path where a bare clone of the archiva-web-content.git is stored.
+
+NOTE: You cannot use +mvn site:run+ because this will place the submodules into the same folder and 
+      overwrite each other.
+
+==== Publish the pages
+
+.This command publishes to the git repository
+
+  mvn scm-publish:publish-scm
+
+After publishing to the git repository the gitpubsub mechanism is transferring it to the HTTP server.
+
+If you would like the use a local checkout of the archiva-web-content.git repository and not push directly
+to the remote repository, you may add this parameter:
+
+  -DsiteRepositoryUrl=scm:git:file:///${path-to-your-local-archiva}/archiva-web-content.git
+
+
+=== Some notes about the build process
+
+A sparse checkout of the git repository will be created in 
+
+ .site-content
+
+but only, if the directory +.site-content/.git+ does not exist. 
+
+
diff --git a/addstage.sh b/addstage.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index d88b5c4..0000000
--- a/addstage.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-MP="$1"
-PL=$(echo "$MP" | sed -e 's#/# #g' -e 's/^\.//g')
-
-echo "$PL"
-STR="project"
-
-if [ -f "${MP}/pom.xml" ]; then
-  for DIR in $PL; do
-    STR="${STR}.parent"
-  done
-else
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-echo "$MP $PL"
-grep -q '<properties>' $MP/pom.xml
-if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-  sed -i -e 's#<properties>#<properties>\n    <site.staging.base>${'${STR}'.basedir}</site.staging.base>#g' $MP/pom.xml
-else
-  grep -q '<packaging>' $MP/pom.xml
-  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-    sed -i -e 's#\(.*</packaging>.*\)#\1\n  <properties>\n    <site.staging.base>${'${STR}'.basedir}</site.staging.base>\n  </properties>#g' $MP/pom.xml
-  else
-    sed -i -e 's#\(.*</name>.*\)#\1\n  <properties>\n    <site.staging.base>${'${STR}'.basedir}</site.staging.base>\n  </properties>#g' $MP/pom.xml
-  fi
-fi
diff --git a/deploySite.sh b/deploySite.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index bde5cf6..7a04361
--- a/deploySite.sh
+++ b/deploySite.sh
@@ -1 +1,60 @@
-mvn clean site site:stage scm-publish:publish-scm $@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+#  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+#  distributed with this work for additional information
+#  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+#  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+#  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+#  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+#  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+#  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+#  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+#  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#  under the License.
+#
+#  Author: Martin Stockhammer <martin_s@apache.org>
+#  Date:   2018-11-15
+#
+#  Publishes the site content and generated reports to the web content repository.
+#  It stops after the staging and let you check the content before pushing to the repository
+#
+
+THIS_DIR=$(dirname $0)
+THIS_DIR=$(readlink -f ${THIS_DIR})
+CONTENT_DIR=".site-content"
+
+SUB_DIR="redback/core"
+
+if [ -d "${CONTENT_DIR}/.git" ]; then
+  git -C "${CONTENT_DIR}" fetch origin
+  git -C "${CONTENT_DIR}" reset --hard origin/master
+fi
+
+echo ">>>> Creating site and reports <<<<" 
+mvn clean site site:stage "$@"
+
+echo "*****************************************"
+echo ">>>> Finished the site stage process <<<<"
+echo "> You can check the content in the folder target/staging or by opening the following url"
+echo "> file://${THIS_DIR}/target/staging/${SUB_DIR}/index.html"
+echo "> "
+echo "> If everything is fine enter yes. After that the publish process will be started."
+echo -n "Do you want to publish (yes/no)? "
+read ANSWER
+
+if [ "${ANSWER}" == "yes" -o "${ANSWER}" == "YES" ]; then
+  echo "> Starting publish process"
+  mvn scm-publish:publish-scm "$@"
+else
+  echo "> Aborting now"
+  echo "> Running git reset in .site-content directory" 
+  git -C "${CONTENT_DIR}" fetch origin
+  git -C "${CONTENT_DIR}" reset --hard origin/master
+  echo ">>>> Finished <<<<"
+fi
+
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7e6c46f..e19cf7e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
   ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
   ~ under the License.
   -->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
@@ -665,21 +666,28 @@
             <useJava5>false</useJava5>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
-<!--        <plugin>
-          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-          <artifactId>maven-scm-publish-plugin</artifactId>
-          <configuration>
-            <content>${project.build.directory}/staging</content>
-            <checkinComment>Apache Redback Core site deployment</checkinComment>
-            <tryUpdate>true</tryUpdate>
-            <pubScmUrl>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/archiva/site-content/redback/core</pubScmUrl>
-          </configuration>
-        </plugin>-->
+        <!--        <plugin>
+                  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                  <artifactId>maven-scm-publish-plugin</artifactId>
+                  <configuration>
+                    <content>${project.build.directory}/staging</content>
+                    <checkinComment>Apache Redback Core site deployment</checkinComment>
+                    <tryUpdate>true</tryUpdate>
+                    <pubScmUrl>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/archiva/site-content/redback/core</pubScmUrl>
+                  </configuration>
+                </plugin>-->
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
           <artifactId>openjpa-maven-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>${openjpa.version}</version>
         </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
+          <configuration>
+            <skipDeploy>true</skipDeploy>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
     <plugins>
@@ -711,7 +719,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
-        <inherited>false</inherited>
+        <inherited>true</inherited>
         <configuration>
           <skipDeploy>true</skipDeploy>
           <stagingDirectory>${site.staging.base}/target/staging/redback/core/</stagingDirectory>
@@ -981,6 +989,50 @@
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>
+
+    <!--
+This runs a sparse git checkout for the web site content repository that contains only the doc directory.
+The profile is activated only, if the checkout directory does not exist.
+The executor runs a shell script.
+-->
+    <profile>
+      <id>site-checkout</id>
+      <activation>
+
+        <file>
+          <missing>${scmPubCheckoutDirectory}</missing>
+        </file>
+      </activation>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>1.6.0</version>
+            <inherited>false</inherited>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>prepare-checkout</id>
+                <phase>pre-site</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>exec</goal>
+                </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <executable>checkoutSite.sh</executable>
+                  <workingDirectory>${project.basedir}</workingDirectory>
+                  <arguments>
+                    <argument>-d</argument>
+                    <argument>${scmPubCheckoutDirectory}</argument>
+                    <argument>${siteRepositoryUrl}</argument>
+                  </arguments>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
+
   </profiles>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/src/site/site.xml b/src/site/site.xml
index d9dec99..3d3707d 100644
--- a/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/src/site/site.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
       <sideBarEnabled>false</sideBarEnabled>
       <skipGenerationDate>true</skipGenerationDate>
       <googleSearch>
-        <sitesearch>http://archiva.apache.org/redback</sitesearch>
+        <sitesearch>https://archiva.apache.org/redback</sitesearch>
       </googleSearch>
       <twitter>
         <user>archiva</user>
@@ -38,16 +38,26 @@
       </twitter>
       <ohloh>
         <projectId>8659</projectId>
-        <widget>stats</widget>
+        <widget>thin-badge</widget>
       </ohloh>
+      <gitHub>
+        <projectId>apache/archiva-redback-core</projectId>
+        <ribbonOrientation>right</ribbonOrientation>
+        <ribbonColor>black</ribbonColor>
+      </gitHub>
     </fluidoSkin>
 
   </custom>
 
-  <publishDate format="yyyy-MM-dd" position="left" />
-  <version position="left" />
+  <publishDate format="yyyy-MM-dd" position="right" />
+  <version position="right" />
  
   <body>
+    <breadcrumbs>
+      <item name="Apache" href="https://www.apache.org" />
+      <item name="Archiva" href="https://archiva.apache.org" />
+      <item name="Redback" href="index.html" />
+    </breadcrumbs>
 
     <menu ref="reports" />
     <menu ref="modules" />