Karl,
I believe the community is branching a release this Friday (now?).
After forking a release branch, the trunk can and SHOULD be free to blaze ahead rapidly, even with
loads of new enhancements from yourself.
The idea of separate branches is simply to have multiple prongs of activity for various
intentions, each prong insulated from the others. The release branch will be "slow-moving waters",
gradually and surely stabilizing into a solid-in-stone release. The trunk is NOT meant for
stabilizing, but for ongoing progress.
In the worst case, the community should consider forking an "exploratory" branch to test out your
contributions, and then merge those contributions into trunk after ironing out any
incompatibilities between OFBiz codes and your codes.
I believe you are already maintaining your own SVN for your own modified OFBiz, and you should be
pulling in updates regularly from OFBiz trunk. I am doing just that.
If this is your objective:
To get the latest and greatest of OFBiz merged with your proven (2 years)
enhancements,
let me know. I'll take in your enhancements and merge them in with OFBiz trunk right now, and then
hand the whole "greater than sum of parts" assembly back to you. We'll iron out incompatibilities
rapidly in another "slow-moving waters" branch called "Karl's Exploratory Branch".
Only condition, of course, is that you expressly indicate that your enhancements are to be put
under ASL, or any other license completely compatible with the one OFBiz is currently using.
We shouldn't turn away complex contributions anymore. I myself have loads of enhancements (mostly
to widget module) that I feel uneasy about releasing to the community, simply because of this odd
use of trunk: it's used like a slow-moving release branch that is unable to handle introductions
of radical enhancements.
Yet, this somewhat slow-moving trunk isn't still enough and focused enough on achieving
release-quality stability. It's the worst of both worlds: it's not rapid enough to allow for
radical progress, and not calm and focused-on-cleaning-up enough to produce a stable release for
non-OFBiz developers.
Jonathon
Anil Patel wrote:
Thanks for your. Contribution, they are always welcome. Contributions
of this size may take long to before they get into trunk, in this case
timing if also a factor. Community is planning a release after long
time so they will try to avoid major changes to framework component.
Please be patient I am sure some body will look at it.
In order to make it easy to review ca it be broken into smaller patches.
Regards
On 4/20/07, Eilebrecht, Karl (Key-Work) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi,
we use Ofbiz (mostly the entity engine) for over 2 years now.
Last year I had mail contact with David.
He recommended to contribute changes to the Ofbiz Community regularly
whenever possible and useful.
It is a long time since this happened, but we finally convinced our
management to try
to contribute some changes and extensions to the Ofbiz community.
I read the FAQ and found out that especially complex changes might take a
long time
and we may need some "community attendance".
David told me to place our proposal at the Ofbiz-WIKI
and to send a link to this mailing list.
This is our "trial balloon" to find out whether our changes and
improvements
are welcome and how we could integrate them during the next months.
I.e. the following extensions may also be interesting for other members
of the community:
* Advanced custom SQL integration
* advanced sorting (locale, collation, natural sort)
* completely refactored TransactionUtil with documentation and hints
* on-demand "real"-sql-logging for ALL ofbiz statements
...
I placed our stuff at
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Key-Work+Ofbiz+Contribution+Proposal
and hope one of the "Ofbiz gurus" will have a look at the attached
stuff to
make a statement.
Thank you in advance!
Best regards
Karl Eilebrecht
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