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.
