I thought it was ok from ddekany's last comment http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100794&aid=3527625&group_id=794 ?
Jacques From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> > Hi Adam, > > glad to see you back. > > First of all an off topic (I apologize for it but I ): the guy at > Freemarker.org is still waiting for your CLA that is necessary to include > your patch into the next Freemarker release (we are currently using a > Freemarker jar modified by you and we should fix it asap); please get in > touch with him and/or resend the CLA when you can. Thank you. > > As regards the debian folder, I am sure it was working but it is also true > that it is a very specific component and that no one in this community (apart > you) showed interest or even attempted to maintain it (I am sure no one apart > from you would be able to): these are all good reasons for moving it out to > the official trunk and releases; however I see it a good tool that you could > provide distribute outside of the official project. > You can think of the best way to do this (it seems you already have some) but > I also want to mention (since you are very busy) that there is no rush as the > component was stale for a long time and we could bring it back into the > future if/when the community will show an interest on it. > > Kind regards, > > Jacopo > > > On Nov 15, 2012, at 6:49 PM, Adam Heath wrote: > >> On 11/15/2012 10:54 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >>> This is now completed at rev. 1409880 >>> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Attic >>> >>> Jacopo >>> >>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 8:09 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >>> >>>> ... the removal will be documented, as usual, in the "Attic" page: >>>> >>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Attic >> >> Hmm, sad. I understand the reasoning, and I've been super busy at >> work, and missed both the original email and this final one. Ean had >> to poke me about it. >> >> The debian folder *does* function, and will produce proper >> debian-policy-compliant debs. The only reason you don't see it >> uploaded to debian.org(I am also a debian developer, or used to be), >> is that ofbiz embeds outside libraries in side it, and that is not >> allowed for an upload to debian main. >> >> I'd like to keep this around, but I also understand the desire to keep >> ofbiz upstream clean. Here are my thoughts, based on a discussion Ean >> and I *just* had here at work. >> >> 1: Create a fork of ofbiz on github. Git is much better for >> distributed development. >> 2: Re-add this debian folder from the attic. >> 3: Import any changes I might have locally. This should be small, as >> I was mostly upstream(I need to check a few older branches). >> 3: Announce this branch as the location for debian development. >> *Only* changes to make debian integration should be placed here. >> 4: Start filing issue trees in jira for pure upstream work. This >> would include things like removing embedded libraries(maybe a >> post-download kinda thing). > >
