Hello Folks
This is a proposal to the community to restructure our SVN repository.
We do this by separating "official" plugins from the core OFBiz
framework and to provide build script tasks to easily download and
install these plugins. The details of this proposal are as follows:
1- Relocate OFBiz from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/ to
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/ofbiz (with all trunk, branches
and tags underneath as is)
2- Create a new tree under
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/ofbiz-plugins to house all plugins
3- Remove /plugins/component-load.xml (any component in /plugins will
load automatically if it is enabled in ofbiz-component.xml)
4- Create a gradle task with the below syntax. This task downloads a
plugin from subversion and places it in /plugins and runs any install
logic that it may have
Syntax: pullPluginSource -PpluginId=<plugin-id-here>
Example: pullPluginSource -PpluginId=birt
5- Refactor the build scripts to cater for all the above
6- Update README.md to reflect all the above
So for example, under this proposal, trunk is located in:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/ofbiz/trunk
And the birt component is located in:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/ofbiz-plugins/trunk/birt
This would allow us to have in the future the ability to provide
releases not only for the framework but the plugins as well as two
separate products.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Taher Alkhateeb
