Karl,
For best results I HIGHLY recommend reading and following the recommendations in the Contributors Best Practices document here:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Contributors+Best+PracticesA lot of people have ideas about how to do different things, but this is the document prepared and maintained by the OFBiz PMC and committers and following the recommendations there will give your contributions the best chance of getting in, and probably be the easiest way to go for both you and the committers who review and commit your contribution.
Thanks for your patience, and sorry for the total chaos this thread has become. It is an unfortunate side effect of not taking a heavy- handed and centralized approach to creating and maintaining software.
-David On Apr 23, 2007, at 6:33 AM, Eilebrecht, Karl ((Key-Work)) wrote:
Jonathon, I'll discuss this with a colleague. As I understand first option is to send you two archives, one with the original distribution we downloaded in January and a second one also including our changes. Second option is to download the next release (coming these days?), merge this and send you the pre-merged archive to do a check. I've got an account at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ Is it correct that I will have to attach a large archive to an issue created in advance by yourself or myself?If you're going to create the initial issue (mentioned in your last posting) please send me the issue number. I'll also put a link on that wiki page.Thanks for your support! Regards. Karl -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 23. April 2007 13:38 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: AW: Ofbiz Contribution Proposal Karl, It's a great offer on your part too, to let us have those codes!If you've done a merge with OFBiz trunk on 2007-01-05, that means you already know how to keep in step with OFBiz trunk head! You can actually do what I do, on your own.That said, if you still need my help, see the following. These are what I'll need from you: a. Exact OFBiz revision you started off from.(Try to send me a tarball of that revision so I don't have to do a SVNdownload which can be a real pain thanks to the 35MB of 3rd-partylibraries. My own SVN doesn't include those 35MB or 3rd-party binaries; let me know if you want advise on how to cut a lean SVN without binaries.)b. Tarball of your latest work you want merged with OFBiz trunk head. (Please do an "export"; I don't need the .cvs files.)What I will give you is a tarball of this: OFBiz trunk head (I'll state revision for ourreference) married with the latest of your work.You will have to test this tarball over time, get back to me about problems, and I'll keep sending you fixed tarballs (or deltas, rather). We won't even have to touch the official OFBiz SVN.For the initial "review", I will at least make sure it compiles and runs. You will have to test your own functions to see they still work with the latest updates from OFBiz SVN.So, here's the summary of the process: 1. We merge latest of OFBiz with your stuff. 2. Review A: We make sure your stuff still works.3. Review B: We (or community) make sure the general OFBiz stuff still works.4. We submit a patch (diff OFBiz to Your_work) to community. And then the ball will be in their (committers') court.Generally, you can pretty much stop at step 2 if all you want is the latest of OFBiz working with your stuff. If you had done your customizations in a backward- compatible manner, step 3 won't bevery difficult or even necessary at all. Jonathon Eilebrecht, Karl (Key-Work) wrote: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 +ProposalI think this is more comfortable to retrace.@Jonathan: It's a great offer you made to take a look on our code and toevtl. 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 Ior one of my colleagues will set up an SVN client. Is it more convenient toyou 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 contributedare compileable with Java 1.4. Regards. KarlBTW: 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 anOFBiz user, that I take for granted and don't really get my hands dirtywith. 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 advantageof some META data/commenting that you discussed as well as potential ofsome reusability and structuring of those custom statements.Perhaps, I need to reread the logging discussion again, and ask if thisis 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 nothave sufficient access to the database server to ascertain the databaselogs...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:http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Key-Work+Ofbiz+Contribution +ProposalHi, 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 regularlywhenever 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 atand 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 -- Karl Eilebrecht Key-Work Consulting GmbH Kriegsstr. 100 - 76133 Karlsruhe - Germany Fon: +49-721-78203-277 - Fax: +49-721-78203-10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key-Work Consulting GmbH Karlsruhe, HRB 108695, HRG Mannheim Geschäftsführer: Andreas Stappert, Tobin Wotring
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