Status of CONNECTORS-474, LEGAL-137, and infrastructure

[Karl Wright <da...@gmail.com>]

Hi Folks,

I've gotten direct feedback from Joe Becknell of qBase, who has agreed
to test connectors built against my stubs against qBase's bevy of
repository instances.  So far, the LiveLink connector passes, but he
is still grappling with the FileNet and Documentum connectors.  With
luck, though, there should be feedback soon.

The legal issue I raised concerning the Meridio Connector's required
WSDLs and XSDs, as generated from the Meridio services themselves, is
also well underway towards resolution.  I've put out contact requests
into the HP/Autonomy/Meridio hierarchy with hopes of getting a narrow
answer back, and Sam Ruby has approached Apache legal counsel about
answering this question in a broader way.  Hopefully one or both of
these avenues will succeed shortly.

The current site work is completed as well, so that once the above two
issues are completed, trunk javadocs should be available, in addition
to javadocs extracted from the current stable release.  At the moment
the site as built does not contain trunk javadocs for livelink,
filenet, documentum, or meridio, however.  I believe we should now
fulfill Joe Schaefer's requirement of complete buildability of the
site on Apache hardware with no non-free proprietary software
installed.

We are still, however, apparently waiting on Infra to do the creation
of our site root, dist area, and SVN move.  Hoping that gets done
pretty soon.  If anyone has any idea why it doesn't seem to be
happening, please let me know.

Thanks,
Karl