Using http protocol for fetching publisher resources from github

This should address the hanging issue.
Merge branch 'devel' of esg-repo.llnl.gov:esg-search into devel

Conflicts:
	bin/esg-search
Put in correct url...

Now that we are hosted on GitHub directly these days...
We should use their repo

https://github.com/ESGF/esgf-publisher-resources.git
Changing log statement to "warn".
Let's please keep Java to 1.6 till I get a new laptop :).
Able to change java version used when building

java.version.val=1.7

(notice - no quotes)