maybe an approach is to have in the truck . with a note that this is a ver4.0 compatible patch. that way if some one wants to apply it they can in there local copy.
This may be the way for all future patches is to note if they can be applied to a release version.. Dan Shields sent the following on 11/14/2007 9:11 AM: > Thanks Jacques for helping get my patch for OFBIZ-1106 into OFBiz. > > Hello Devs, recently I participated with other developers to devise a > fix for OFBIZ-1106. The patch I submitted is now in HEAD but > UNsurprisingly it has been held back from release4.0 because the > acceptance criteria, I am told, accepts only bug fixes. > > Some would agree that release4.0 was unusable for POS for the fact > that it echos the manager's and the user's password to the screen for > all staff and customers to see. I don't know if any other developer > has tried to train non-computer people to use the POS application, but > I have seen the genuine surprise on their faces when they saw their > own password appear on the screen as they typed. It should be > self-evident that this is undesirable behavior. My patch merely > replaces the characters on the screen with asterisks; it does so in a > manner that respects existing APIs employed by the OFBiz POS > application, it is well-tested, cleanly applies to HEAD and > release4.0, and has been tested by other ofbiz developers as well. > > It seems that there is some uncertainty over whether this is in fact a > bug fix or not. I am merely asking for additional support in > deciding: > "For the purposes of release4.0, is my patch for OFBIZ-1106 a bug fix?" > > >
