+1 for the proposal from Taher. Best regards,
Pranay Pandey HotWax Systems http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/ On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com > wrote: > 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/as > f/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 > >
