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

[Dave C. <cav...@gm...>]

Wow Stephen, sorry to hear about the eye problems.  I hope your surgery
goes well and restores your vision as much as possible.

-Dave

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 5:37 AM Joe Pfeiffer <jo...@pf...>
wrote:

> We would be more than happy to have you help -- but more importantly I
> hope the eye surgery is a success.  I'll be thinking of you.
>
> Stephen Heilman writes:
> >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
> >To: OpenRocket development mailing list <
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> >Cc: David Cain <sbl...@ji...>
> >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...> 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...>
> >        Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2024 at 16:34
> >        To: OpenRocket development mailing list <
> 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.  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
> >
> >        NAR 21953 L3
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