tshif,
As mentioned you are free to do as you want. It’s a shame that you don’t appear to want to interact with some of the others that are actively working on FreePBX development on FreePBX.org as there is a lot of positive help and collaboration you can get.
As one simple example, last I looked the hotel wakeup had no localization in it. I suspect if it were in the FreePBX repos you’d find one of the devs either working on the code or working with you to discuss what is needed to enable it followed by various translators starting to add translations. I’ve seen this happen several times already.
Or you can par-take in the very positive collaboration available when you have different interests and skill sets. Like when mickecarlsson decided to take the challenge of finally attacking every last glitch in the localization system, which resulted getting me to spend dozens of hours to help figure out how to get around some of the more difficult corner cases because of the nature of how gettext work. And resulted in him developing some tools to make it much easier for other translators to get what they needed, … those are the examples of the positive collaboration that you can get when people with similar passions play in the same sandbox. (since you can see all the activity happening). And - I personally don’t have any need for the localization but can appreciate when others are giving that level of their time for the project and reciprocate.
Concerning “This is the conclusion I had come to as well - and we are in the process of working on that very thing [writing our own updater] right now. I’m actually quite happy to learn that you aren’t going to consider that behavior in a module to be “Blasphemous” or anti FreePBX.”
No I don’t consider it blasphemous, I consider it disappointing that the energy would go to do that never having had a conversation previously about it with FreePBX and from the conversation that we have had, not seeing any real reason that you have stated that could not be solved why you would not want to host it out of the FreePBX repository. It would be great to see that same type of energy put toward improving what is already there, as there are always areas that could use improvement.
So, No, I don’t see it anti FreePBX, but it sounds like it may be a bit Anti-FreePBX Community or Anti-User Friendly to the end users though I don’t have enough information at this point to draw that conclusion yet.
The unfortunate thing is that there are others who are interested in some of these modules and want to bring them into the FreePBX repository. And in some cases, there has been discussion about getting them into core. With them being open source, now the user base is going to end up having conflicts or annoying hiccups since when/if that is done, your modules installed on many systems will suddenly become available for updates and start serving out of FreePBX. It would sure be nice if that was led by the authors who are still actively engaged in those modules.