Re: [Openrocket-devel] Announcement: End of my role as maintainer of the parts database

[Stephen H. <sj...@li...>]

I helped Dave with some of this  I would be glad to help with this. However I an blind rights now waiting on eye surgery next month

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From: David Cain via Openrocket-devel <ope...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:38:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [Openrocket-devel] Announcement: End of my role as maintainer of the parts database

Thanks Dave.

I too appreciate the resource you've created for the community!

DC

On March 20, 2024 4:59:36 PM EDT, Dave Cook <cav...@gm...> wrote:
Thanks to all of you for the kind words!

On the license, I think the About menu presentation is enough.  I knew about that once and then forgot it when I was dissecting the app bundle recently for some other reason.

-Dave

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:10 PM Sibo Van Gool <sib...@ho...<mailto:sib...@ho...>> wrote:

Hi Dave,



I’d like to thank you for what you have gifted OpenRocket and the model rocketry community. Your hard work has saved users countless hours and has elevated OpenRocket. For that, you have my respect.



I will create a fork so we can continue your work. We’ll have to take a look at the license issue.



Cheers,

Sibo



From: Dave Cook <cav...@gm...<mailto:cav...@gm...>>
Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2024 at 16:34
To: OpenRocket development mailing list <ope...@li...<mailto:ope...@li...>>
Subject: [Openrocket-devel] Announcement: End of my role as maintainer of the parts database

Hi everyone,



Hopefully this reaches everyone that needs to know, as this list has been very quiet for the last 18 months.



I would like to announce that after working on it since 2015, I am stepping down from further regular development and maintenance of the parts database in github.com/dbcook/openrocket-database<http://github.com/dbcook/openrocket-database>.  There really have been very few PRs and issues over the last year, and no difficult ones.  Overall I think the database is fairly mature, and for reasons outlined in the readme, continuing comprehensive coverage of the Estes product line is infeasible given the offshore manufacturing methods.



At present the OR build pulls directly from my repo as a submodule.  What needs to happen now is for OR to create a fork of my repo in its own github account, assign some maintainers and point the build to that fork.  I have no intention of taking my repo down; I'm just letting you know to not expect many future updates, and that I may no longer respond to PRs/issues against my repo quickly, or at all.



I'd also like to call attention to a license compliance issue with the packaged installers.  After installation of the OR package (on Mac at least), there is no LICENSE file present for either the GPL used by the main OR code base nor the Apache 2.0 for my database.  Both licenses require that any distribution must include a copy of the applicable license.  The packaged installer builds need to be modified to include copies of both licenses in user-visible locations (i.e. buried in the Mac OpenRocket.app resource bundle is not OK).  I trust that this will be fairly easy and can be done for the next release.



I'm sure this handover will trigger at least some discussion and I'll undertake to respond promptly.



Best regards,

Dave Cook

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