On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4/15/13, Ryan Ollos <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi !
> >>
> >> During the week end I created at Bibucket a fork of Trac XmlRpcPlugin
> >> to add in there compatibility for Bloodhound . We need that to
> >> integrate some desktop applications with issue tracker , but there are
> >> other applications even for our own use .
> >>
> >
> > Great! I think it has enough value that I'd like to see XmlRpcPlugin
> > eventually become a component of the Bloodhound distribution.
> >
>
> AFAICR trac-dev was also considering merging that plugin into Trac
> core once upon a time .
>
> Considering some plans and schedule for proposals (i.e. BEPs) this
> seems to be imminent . Of course , they'd have to be fleshed out and
> accepted first . Still in the fridge though .
>
> >
> >> After reviewing the state of xmlrpcplugin trunk , now I tried to run
> >> its test suite . This is what I got
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> So I'm curious : what's the estimated time to bring contrib folder
> >> back into BH trunk ? <= if such estimation is possible of course .
> >
> >
> > There is a ticket (1) for adding license headers to the files in
> 'contrib'
> > and some other directories, and I felt that I took ticket as far as I
> could
> > without additional input from a Trac developer. Most everything looked
> fine
> > in terms of being able to put a BSD 3-Clause license on all, or nearly
> all,
> > of the files in 'contrib', but I'm not optimistic that there will be any
> > status changes of the ticket for a while.
> >
>
> ... a law of Trac inertia ... they have other important things to do
> too . For our own sake let's keep them focused on releasing high
> quality code ;)
>
> > So if everyone agrees that we have a good case for adding back
> 'contrib', I
> > favor doing that and just removing it from the release tarball,
> considering
> > Brane said this would work okay.
> >
>
> if this triggers a vote , fwiw +1


Since there were no further comments to those by Olemis and Brane, I went
ahead and restored `contrib` in r1469291.

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