make sure clone and fetch close the remote repo
Update the scm URL's and deploying repo in the root pom to point to boundlessgeo.com instead of opengeo.org
Workaround for cli command proxies to work with --help
Avoid ClassCastExceptions in IniFileConfigDatabase.get(...).

Lacking a better tool to convert from String to the desired output type,
made it so it "manually" converts to the known types config options
are saved as.