When a person (or a group) want to contribute a new theme, as
discussed that this would go on OFBiz Theme Gallery page but what
about incremental fixes or improvement to these themes?
I think it would be nice to add a note on theme gallery page which
instructs the owner or any other person who improve the theme and
eventually contribute, to add brief details about the what was fixed
in a particular version, since we are not maintaining them in trunk.
Vikas
On May 8, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Tim Ruppert wrote:
Just so it's clear, I didn't phrase it that way since it wasn't
about just this one theme I really did want to know if we were going
to do things the wordpress way or just jam all of these things into
the trunk and let the community support them. My personal opinion
is that I'd like to start seeing it go the way of all other projects
where these sorts of plugins - especially at the UI level - are
actually just things maintained separately so that they're not in
the trunk - but it doesn't really matter to me which way we do it.
So, yeah, I'm looking for a policy but if it's - just like
everything else - I'm totally cool with that.
Cheers,
Tim
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----- "David E Jones" <david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote:
This has been going on for a few days, but it seems like different
people are talking about different things and thinking they are
talking about the same thing.
Tim's original point was what to do with the SmoothFeather theme now
that BizznessTime replaces it, and unfortunately he didn't phrase it
that way, just mentioned deprecating themes.
If something isn't being maintained then we can decide. I don't think
we need a policy, and I don't think we need to ax anything else as
there aren't any other themes that are not being maintained.
-David
On May 7, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
This discussion has been going on for a few days. There seems to be
some support for the idea of having two themes in the trunk, and
keep the rest on a web page.
So, what would your suggestion be for themes in the trunk that
aren't being maintained?
-Adrian
David E Jones wrote:
No! Definitely not. Bluelight is quite different from BizznessTime/
SmoothFeather.
Let's not get lost in all this... the ONLY reason there was even a
discussion about deprecating/removing themes is because the
BizznessTime theme was added instead of updating the SmoothFeather
theme, even though it is really just a big update to the
SmoothFeather theme and so represents a replacement for it.
-David
On May 7, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Should we do the same for Bluelight?
-Adrian
Tim Ruppert wrote:
Smooth Feather has been posted to the Visual Themes page and can
now be removed by anyone who has rights. I'm not sure where I
ever rememthemes is classified, but I'll give it a whirl and will
report back.
Cheers,
Tim
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----- "Tim Ruppert" <tim.rupp...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote:
Yeah, I can get behind that for sure. Btw, Jacques, I think we
keep
the Flat Grey forever - no reason to deprecate that one - just
the
ones that aren't going to be maintained - of which the original
Smooth
Feather now stands out.
Anyways, if everyone's cool with that - then we can make a page
in
Confluence and keep everything there - starting with moving
Smooth
Feather there.
Cheers,
Tim
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----- "Adrian Crum" <adri...@hlmksw.com> wrote:
I like the idea of moving deprecated themes to a web page.
-Adrian
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
For several reason, I really appreciate sometimes to have the
good
old
theme (Flat Grey) at hand.
We could keep Flat Grey and the best known at the moment
(obviously
BiznessTime at the moment).
The others would stay at http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/yhQ
This would be an easy deprecation policy
Jacques
From: "Adrian Crum" <adri...@hlmksw.com>
There were differing opinions about them. I suggested having
only
one
theme in OFBiz, and the other themes could be provided
outside
the
project - by theme providers.
David thought it would be good to have several themes in the
project
in order to demonstrate the theme idea.
From my perspective, having more than one theme in the
project
means
that much more code that has to be maintained.
As far as I know, no "theme deprecation" plan has been
discussed.
-Adrian
Tim Ruppert wrote:
I may have missed this in general, but what is the plan to
deprecate
themes when people aren't supporting them any longer?
We've
already
got one that we want to do this to - and there will surely
be
others
as we're trying to work out these backend interfaces.
Anyways,
my
vote would be community votes and just removing them - but
I'd
love
to hear what the original intention was and other good
ideas
out
there.
Cheers,
Tim
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Tim Ruppert
HotWax Media
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