Andy, I see you've set yourself as the MAINTAINER now, have you
 discussed this with Paul Kinnucan?  If he knows about this and is ok
 with it, so am I. 
I believe so but will check again.
 Some comments about the sync:
 Please update xemacs-packages/jde/ChangeLog.  At the very least, the
 MAINTAINER change and a note about the sync must be there. 
Ok.
 xemacs-packages/jde/ReleaseNotes.txt should be synced too, the
upstream
 package has it in lisp/ReleaseNotes.txt.  It would be a good idea also
 put it to Makefile's EXTRA_SOURCES. 
Ok.
 jde-compat.elc is not listed in ELCS, on purpose?  I think it should
be. 
Nope, its only for compilation.
/jde/lisp/jde-java-font-lock.el.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.4> was lost in the sync.
Upstream forward wouldn't hurt.
I have tried to feedback all these changes to Paul, I don't know whether I
missed this one or whether its not needed anymore.
 This is not actually related to the sync, but I noticed that unlike
all
 other packages, jde doesn't list all provided stuff in package-info.in
 (provides).  Maybe it should? 
Probably
andy