On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:37 PM, Kalle Korhonen wrote:

Hello Xwikiers,

I found swizzle-confluence an easy to use lib to pull data from XWiki/Confluence. From previous discussions, I understand XWiki is also using it internally. My biggest issue is that the released version is using an ancient version of httpclient, but it's fixed in the svn.

Yep, that was contributed by Catalin when he was working on the XWiki XMLRPC improvements :) He provided several other patches. I think most of them if not all are also included in swizzle's SVN.

I've pinged the swizzle guy a few times on the project email list during several months, but it seems he's not interested or too busy to put up a release.

I've been trying to ping David Blevins a few times myself. Being such a nice guy I was surprised that he never answered. After I received your mail I was able to find him on IRC. He had never received my emails for some reason (spam, etc). He's now working on applying the last XWiki patch http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SWIZZLE-24 but he needs help from Catalin to apply it (I've pinged Catalin yesterday but not answer so far).

I think XWiki uses your own build for swizzle-confluence. I'd be happy if that version was available in some common Maven(2) repo as I'm trying to avoid maintaining my own version. Have you guys thought about what to do with it, maybe even hosting it as its own sub project as part of XWiki?

Sure, but the best is really to work with David and help him out to do releases of swizzle. I know he's been awfully busy but he's ready to do a quick release if we can answer the questions he has on our latest patch.

Thanks

-Vincent