Sometimes volunteer effort comes in spurts. There is a good chance you'll have a dozen patches sitting there for a while, and then they all get committted in one weekend.
If you give up and not upload patches, then when that volunteer time becomes available there will be nothing to commit. -Adrian --- On Sat, 5/15/10, Chris Snow <sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk> wrote: > From: Chris Snow <sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk> > Subject: Re: Making the dev process work... > To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 2:30 AM > If there is one patch per entity, > only one or two patches waiting to be > committed at any one time, one month to commit each patch, > that's alot of > patience (100+ months)! > > It sounds like my options are: > > A) not bother doing anything > B) setup my own local svn that is a mirror of the apache > svn server > > > Yeah, be patient. I had patches sitting in Jira for > years before they were > > committed. > > > > -Adrian > > > > > > --- On Sat, 5/15/10, Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com> > wrote: > > > >> From: Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com> > >> Subject: Re: Making the dev process work... > >> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > >> Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 1:42 AM > >> No it's not possible (well > >> technically it is but it's very unlikely to > happen). > >> > >> Just be patient and they'll get committed. > >> > >> Regards > >> Scott > >> > >> HotWax Media > >> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > >> > >> On 15/05/2010, at 6:56 PM, Chris Snow wrote: > >> > >> > A while back, I had a small improvement > committed to > >> provide field tooltip > >> > help. > >> > > >> > I now have the time consuming process of > extracting > >> the tooltip help text > >> > from the manager references and putting it > into the > >> xml property files. > >> > > >> > The problem is that I have to rely on > commiters to > >> take my patches, review > >> > and commit them. Erwan is kindly reviewing > my > >> patch for the ProductStore > >> > and will hopefully commit it at some > stage. > >> However, committers have > >> > other priorities and getting the huge amount > of > >> patches that I will be > >> > providing to be committed is going to be > very > >> timeconsuming! Contributing > >> > to the problem is that I don't want to spend > more that > >> half a day on a > >> > single patch - I can't aford to lose time on > writing > >> patches that may not > >> > get committed. > >> > > >> > Is it possible to give fine grained svn > access, I.e. > >> just to the property > >> > files that contain the field descriptions? > >> > > >> > Any other ideas? > >> > > >> > Many thanks, > >> > > >> > > >> > Chris > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Chris Snow - CEng MBCS CITP MBA (Tech Mgmt) (Open) CISSP > > Tel: 01453 890660 > Mob: 07944 880950 > Www: www.snowconsulting.co.uk > >
