Hi Karl, I suspect simply creating a Jira issue and attaching a patch with the ASF license radio button clicked would be the best approach for now.
(All) Correct me if I'm wrong, but because of the likely size and or complexity of the contribution, I think eventually it will need a "code grant" before actually being added to the project. But the Jira issue should allow us to be able to play with the work and get a discussion going around it. I would like to discourage you and others from sharing patches or exports directly that you intend to contribute back to the community project as it makes potential intellectual property issues that much more difficult to iron out. --- "Eilebrecht, Karl (Key-Work)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathon, > > I'll discuss this with a colleague. > As I understand first option is to send you > two archives, one with the original distribution we > downloaded in January and a second one also including > our changes. > Second option is to download the next release (coming these days?), > merge this and send you the pre-merged archive to do a check. > > I've got an account at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ > Is it correct that I will have to attach a large archive to an issue > created in advance by yourself or myself? > > If you're going to create the initial issue (mentioned in your last > posting) > please send me the issue number. I'll also put a link on that wiki > page. > > Thanks for your support! > > Regards. > Karl > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Montag, 23. April 2007 13:38 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: AW: Ofbiz Contribution Proposal > > Karl, > > It's a great offer on your part too, to let us have those codes! > > If you've done a merge with OFBiz trunk on 2007-01-05, that means you > already know how to keep in > step with OFBiz trunk head! You can actually do what I do, on your > own. > > That said, if you still need my help, see the following. > > These are what I'll need from you: > > a. Exact OFBiz revision you started off from. > > (Try to send me a tarball of that revision so I don't have to do > a SVN > download which can be a real pain thanks to the 35MB of 3rd-party > libraries. My own SVN doesn't include those 35MB or 3rd-party > binaries; let > me know if you want advise on how to cut a lean SVN without > binaries.) > > b. Tarball of your latest work you want merged with OFBiz trunk head. > > (Please do an "export"; I don't need the .cvs files.) > > What I will give you is a tarball of this: OFBiz trunk head (I'll > state revision for our > reference) married with the latest of your work. > > You will have to test this tarball over time, get back to me about > problems, and I'll keep sending > you fixed tarballs (or deltas, rather). We won't even have to touch > the official OFBiz SVN. > > For the initial "review", I will at least make sure it compiles and > runs. You will have to test > your own functions to see they still work with the latest updates > from OFBiz SVN. > > So, here's the summary of the process: > > 1. We merge latest of OFBiz with your stuff. > > 2. Review A: We make sure your stuff still works. > > 3. Review B: We (or community) make sure the general OFBiz stuff > still works. > > 4. We submit a patch (diff OFBiz to Your_work) to community. > > And then the ball will be in their (committers') court. > > Generally, you can pretty much stop at step 2 if all you want is the > latest of OFBiz working with > your stuff. If you had done your customizations in a > backward-compatible manner, step 3 won't be > very difficult or even necessary at all. > > Jonathon > > Eilebrecht, Karl (Key-Work) wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, hi Chris, > > > > thank you for your feedback (and also thank you for stiring up a > hornet's nest ;-) ) > > > > @Chris: I will try to answer your questions on the wiki page: > > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Key-Work+Ofbiz+Contribution+Proposal > > I think this is more comfortable to retrace. > > > > @Jonathan: It's a great offer you made to take a look on our code > and to > > evtl. merge it! What's the best way to provide the code to you? > > I'll have to prepare some things before: > > - for historical reasons we have a CVS repository and I > > or one of my colleagues will set up an SVN client. Is it more > convenient to > > you to get an archive for the first review or would you recommend > to > > pump the sources into a repository? (where?) > > - I already have added the Apache-Header (ASL) to all of the > classes > > we might contribute. > > - I'll have to replace all tabs in the sources by 4 spaces. > > > > The rest I think should be not too complex, our last framework > merge (with trunk) was on 2007-01-05, I don't think there are > dramatic low level interface changes since then. > > > > We have already switched to Java 6 but all the classes to be > contributed > > are compileable with Java 1.4. > > > > Regards. > > Karl > > > > BTW: During the next weeks there may be some "communication delays" > because I'll not be in the office all the time. So please don't worry > if an email answer needs some days, thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Chris Howe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gesendet: Samstag, 21. April 2007 08:33 > > An: [email protected] > > Betreff: Re: Ofbiz Contribution Proposal > > > > Hi Karl, > > > > I had the opportunity today to quickly read over your > introductions. > > And must say it looks very interesting. Unfortunately, for my > being > > able to add input to the process, the improvements are in areas as > an > > OFBiz user, that I take for granted and don't really get my hands > dirty > > with. > > > > I'll need to read over the transaction part again to ask any > > intelligent questions, so I'll leave that for later. > > > > The custom SQL stuff looked very interesting and probably one of > the > > larger areas of benefit as more and more people are getting to the > > point of locating bottlenecks in their applications. I was > wondering > > if there might be some benefit in encapsulating the stored sql > > statements it in an XML structure to be able to better take > advantage > > of some META data/commenting that you discussed as well as > potential of > > some reusability and structuring of those custom statements. > > > > Perhaps, I need to reread the logging discussion again, and ask if > this > > is largely supported among other databases, but can't most of these > > logging of the sql statements be handled in the database's log, if > > configured to do so? I recall a mention that the developer may not > > have sufficient access to the database server to ascertain the > database > > logs...is this case where the logging proposal would be more > > beneficial? > > > > Thank you and Key-Work very much for bringing these enhancements > back > > to the community! > > > > Chris > > > > --- "Eilebrecht, Karl (Key-Work)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> > >> we use Ofbiz (mostly the entity engine) for over 2 years now. > >> > >> > === message truncated ===
