Just to clarify: I understand that this feature is useful for the portletWidget 
implementation, but it is a *framework* feature that has to be 
discussed/approved/committed to trunk before the portletWidget code can use it, 
not vice versa.

Jacopo

On Nov 17, 2012, at 7:54 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Erwan,
> 
> could you please explain why this patch was committed to the portletWidget 
> branch? There were some objections in Jira and in general there was no 
> general approval for the inclusion. Also, it was a patch for the trunk, not 
> the branch.
> 
> This is not the way to go, the branch is not the playground of one committer 
> and we cannot use it as an easy way (a lot of traffic, less reviews from 
> committers) to see the code we like committed to trunk. If this is the 
> general trend, I am tempted to say that the experiment of branches (mostly) 
> used by one committer is failing: branches make sense only if a relevant part 
> of the committer group is working on new stuff, not just one.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jacopo
> 
> PS: a message to all: since I am not going to review each and every commit 
> done on this branch, I am going to vote -1 to the merging of the 
> portletWidget branch with the trunk until I will get enough guarantees from 
> the people that worked on it that the changes will be only related to the 
> original purpose of the branch.
> 
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:10 PM, er...@apache.org wrote:
> 
>> Author: erwan
>> Date: Tue Oct 30 21:10:10 2012
>> New Revision: 1403870
>> 
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1403870&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Applying a patch from Olivier Heintz on branch OFBIZ-4949 add a new 
>> attribute for for entity-engine-xml tag, put-other-field-to-null= true, if 
>> it exist at the beginning data file, all update will put to null all field 
>> not detail in this file
>> 
>> Modified:
>>   
>> ofbiz/branches/20120329_portletWidget/framework/entity/src/org/ofbiz/entity/util/EntitySaxReader.java
> 

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