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 # Eclipse BIRT [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/hvbtup/birt.svg?branch=flugtiger_master)](https://travis-ci.com/hvbtup/birt)
 The open source Eclipse BIRT reporting and data visualization project.
 
-**This is not the official Eclipse repository, nevertheless feel free to open tickets and pull requests!**
+**This is not the official Eclipse repository!**
+
+This repository was originally forked from `flugtiger/birt`, because at that time that was the only BIRT repo that seemed to work.
+As of today (March 2022), it is more or less up-to-date with the official Eclipse repo `eclipse/BIRT`,
+so if you want to compare it at the source level, you should compare
+this repo's `tup_main` branch with the official `master` branch.
 
 ## Reasons for this fork and differences to the official Eclipse repository
 
 For more information about this repository see our [wiki pages](https://github.com/hvbtup/birt/wiki)
 
+If you are just looking for the official BIRT, don't use this - instead use the [official repo](https://github.com/eclipse/birt/)
+
+## BIRT documentation ##
+
+The new [BIRT website](https://eclipse.org/birt) contains a lot of useful information.
+It is in fact a wiki, though not as open as other wikis.
+The web site still could use a lot of improvement - your help is welcome.
+
+## Using a pre-built BIRT
+
+If you just want to start creating reports, you can use a pre-built BIRT version.
+See the releases page for the all-in-one designer and the POJO runtime.
+
+Binary releases of the official BIRT are available on the Eclipse web site.
+An official 4.9.0 release is planned in Q1/Q2 2022, in the meantime you can find binary artifacts for each PR on https://github.com/eclipse/birt/actions
+
 ## Building BIRT
-See the wiki pages on flugtiger/birt  [How to build Eclipse BIRT](https://github.com/Flugtiger/birt/wiki/How-to-build-Eclipse-BIRT) and [How to setup an Eclipse IDE for Eclipse BIRT](https://github.com/Flugtiger/birt/wiki/How-to-setup-an-Eclipse-IDE-for-Eclipse-BIRT). 
 
-Just remember to replace flugtiger/birt with hvbtup/birt
+Building BIRT has become relatively easy since 2021/2022. Just [see eclipse/birt](https://github.com/eclipse/birt/).
+Wim Jongman also created an excellent video tutorial.
+
+Just remember to replace `eclipse/birt` with `hvbtup/birt` and the `master` branch with `tup_main` when configuring GIT.