XUI is dead

[Jacques Le Roux <ja...@les7arts.com>]

Hi,

I want to let you know that the XUI project is officially dead. XUI was licenced under the XPL licence which was a derivation from 
MPL, hence compatible with our licence. There is a new project which aims to replace XUI : ARIA 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aria/. It was created by one of the XUI founders : Luan O'Carrol. Unfortunately there was a couple 
of issue

Bad news
1. The licence has changed, it's now under a GPL/LGPL license (on SourceForge it's even less clear)
2. There will be some tools to migrate from XUI to ARIA but it is not directly compatible.

Good news
1. As I have exchanged a bit with Luan before when working on the POS, I asked him about the licence. He said it should no be a big 
deal as his intention is to open ARIA more than XUI was. So in a 1st time he will change the licence to MPL (or MP like) has it was 
before for XUI.
2. I'm sure the ARIA team will help us if ever we need to migrate from XUI to ARIA.

We discussed a bit more and it happens that Luan would like to have ARIA under the ASL2. And even that he would like to see ARIA 
becomes an Apache Project. I explained him roughly the procedure (Candidate, Champion, Sponsor, Mentor, Incubator, TLP). I think I 
qualify for being a Mentor. But I will need some help from our community (OFBiz) to find the Champion, Sponsor and at least another 
Mentor. I think that OFBiz can't be a Sponsor. Else ARIA will later (when hopefully out of incubator) become an OFBiz sub-project 
which makes not a lot of sense in my opinion. Note that Luan has previously contributed to the Batik Apache Project.

Note also that there is no hurry on our side. We now use XUI 3.2rc2B without any known issues. But I think it's better to know that 
ARIA will be there for our future with the POS component.

Thanks for your attention

Jacques 

Re: XUI is dead

[Luan O'Carroll <lu...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Jacques,

Putting the project under the Apache umbrella would be great.

> 2. There will be some tools to migrate from XUI to ARIA but it is not
> directly compatible.

Just give me some feedback and I'll extend the migration tool to
address any issues.

>
> Good news
> 1. As I have exchanged a bit with Luan before when working on the POS, I
> asked him about the licence. He said it should no be a big deal as his
> intention is to open ARIA more than XUI was. So in a 1st time he will change
> the licence to MPL (or MP like) has it was before for XUI.
> 2. I'm sure the ARIA team will help us if ever we need to migrate from XUI
> to ARIA.

Absolutely, just get in touch when you want to do the conversion and
we will help, or we could kick it off in parallel so that it is ready
for a future release.

Luan

Re: XUI is dead

[Luan O'Carroll <lu...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Jacques,

Putting the project under the Apache umbrella would be great.

> 2. There will be some tools to migrate from XUI to ARIA but it is not
> directly compatible.

Just give me some feedback and I'll extend the migration tool to
address any issues.

>
> Good news
> 1. As I have exchanged a bit with Luan before when working on the POS, I
> asked him about the licence. He said it should no be a big deal as his
> intention is to open ARIA more than XUI was. So in a 1st time he will change
> the licence to MPL (or MP like) has it was before for XUI.
> 2. I'm sure the ARIA team will help us if ever we need to migrate from XUI
> to ARIA.

Absolutely, just get in touch when you want to do the conversion and
we will help, or we could kick it off in parallel so that it is ready
for a future release.

Luan