Karl,
I would recommend considering to use OFBiz Jira because of licence
reasons ("joint works" are not eligible to be commited). Jonathon is
able to explain that deeper to you if needed. You may also find
discussions about this topic in Nabble (using "joint works" research).
Thanks
Jacques
De : "Eilebrecht, Karl (Key-Work)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi Jonathan, hi Chris,
>
> thank you for your feedback (and also thank you for stiring up a
hornet's nest ;-) )
>
> @Chris: I will try to answer your questions on the wiki page:
>
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Key-Work+Ofbiz+Contribution+Proposal
> I think this is more comfortable to retrace.
>
> @Jonathan: It's a great offer you made to take a look on our code and
to
> evtl. merge it! What's the best way to provide the code to you?
> I'll have to prepare some things before:
> - for historical reasons we have a CVS repository and I
> or one of my colleagues will set up an SVN client. Is it more
convenient to
> you to get an archive for the first review or would you recommend to
> pump the sources into a repository? (where?)
> - I already have added the Apache-Header (ASL) to all of the classes
> we might contribute.
> - I'll have to replace all tabs in the sources by 4 spaces.
>
> The rest I think should be not too complex, our last framework merge
(with trunk) was on 2007-01-05, I don't think there are dramatic low
level interface changes since then.
>
> We have already switched to Java 6 but all the classes to be
contributed
> are compileable with Java 1.4.
>
> Regards.
> Karl
>
> BTW: During the next weeks there may be some "communication delays"
because I'll not be in the office all the time. So please don't worry if
an email answer needs some days, thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Chris Howe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet: Samstag, 21. April 2007 08:33
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: Ofbiz Contribution Proposal
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> I had the opportunity today to quickly read over your introductions.
> And must say it looks very interesting. Unfortunately, for my being
> able to add input to the process, the improvements are in areas as an
> OFBiz user, that I take for granted and don't really get my hands
dirty
> with.
>
> I'll need to read over the transaction part again to ask any
> intelligent questions, so I'll leave that for later.
>
> The custom SQL stuff looked very interesting and probably one of the
> larger areas of benefit as more and more people are getting to the
> point of locating bottlenecks in their applications. I was wondering
> if there might be some benefit in encapsulating the stored sql
> statements it in an XML structure to be able to better take advantage
> of some META data/commenting that you discussed as well as potential
of
> some reusability and structuring of those custom statements.
>
> Perhaps, I need to reread the logging discussion again, and ask if
this
> is largely supported among other databases, but can't most of these
> logging of the sql statements be handled in the database's log, if
> configured to do so? I recall a mention that the developer may not
> have sufficient access to the database server to ascertain the
database
> logs...is this case where the logging proposal would be more
> beneficial?
>
> Thank you and Key-Work very much for bringing these enhancements back
> to the community!
>
> Chris
>
> --- "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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> >
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> >
> >
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