I don't think that the comment is about the license clearance: yesterday I had an email exchange with Daniel Dekany (ddekany) and he is still waiting for the CLA.
Jacopo On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > 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). >> >>
