Hi Jacopo, I understand your formal concerns about being mixed with the branch and I agree with you.
Apart that, I did not find anything against this patch http://ofbiz.markmail.org/search/?q=OFBIZ-4949 Only Scoot's comment about using fieldName="" which is cleary a less dangerous but also less powerfull solution for the requirement I don't see it as something dangerous since it would be only used by file and with a clear intention of the author. Do I miss something? Else would be a +1 for me to be directly in trunk Jacques From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> > 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 >> > >