De : "Jonathon -- Improov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Like BJ, I had also created my own configurator. > > As for David's point about deployment management and version control (of > config files), I would > agree with Jim Barrows. Those who use the UI configurator would use it > exclusively, and have > someone in charge of documenting all the switches required for a particular > deployment. Those who > use SVN to version control the switches will have similar documents for the > switches, but the > documentation would exist in non-UI form. > > How I use my configurator is like this. I first use it to configure all > switches (written to file, > no storage of settings or configuration flow in database). I then version > control all the config > files. Each time I use the configurator to change something, I commit the > changes switches into SVN.
If I understand well, as Adrian outlined, David's concern is with concurrent accesses (Chris Howe seems to look for a possible solution using Xindice ?) Jacques > Jonathon > > Adrian Crum wrote: > > Marco's recent work in Jira brought this issue to my attention: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-636. > > > > I would like to start working on that feature. Since that issue was > > created, comments have been made in other discussions on the mailing > > list that may have an impact on the implementation. > > > > The idea is to have a system configuration screen. David mentioned > > recently in an unrelated topic that having a UI for system-level > > configuration would be undesirable: > > > > "If you have a config UI it makes it even more difficult to manage > > because if someone changes something in the UI and someone else writing > > code makes a corresponding configuration in the file system, when the > > data is reloaded you might end up with a change loss problem... and > > that's only one scenario." > > > > At the same time, we do get requests for a configuration UI. > > > > So I'd like to work on this, but there is already a disagreement over > > whether it should be done. > > > > Any ideas on how I should proceed? Does anyone see a need for such a > > feature? > > > > -Adrian > > > > > > >
