Another thing to keep in mind is that if the code goes away from OFBiz it will be harder for the rest of us committers to contribute anything and if the existing project is abandoned then there's a good chance you'll be flying solo on this one.
Regards Scott HotWax Media http://www.hotwaxmedia.com On 20/01/2010, at 9:13 AM, Adrian Crum wrote: > Thank you for the suggestion. It is very similar to what I had in mind. I was > planning on introducing myself, offer to adopt the abandoned project, and > wait to see who responds. > > -Adrian > > David E Jones wrote: >> On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: >>> Something that has been mentioned in passing in previous threads is the >>> possibility of taking some of the OFBiz technologies and making them >>> projects of their own. >>> >>> Two areas come to my mind that I think are good candidates for something >>> like that: The object type conversion framework and the temporal >>> expressions. I kind of had it in my mind they could be in their own library >>> when I designed them. >>> >>> Apache Commons has an abandoned conversion project and they are looking for >>> someone to adopt it. I could approach them about having our conversion >>> framework moved there. I believe Apache Commons would be a good home for >>> the Temporal Expressions as well. >>> >>> What that would mean for us is we won't have to maintain the source code in >>> the project any more. Instead we will include jar files in the project - >>> like any other third party library. >>> >>> What do you think? Are there any other OFBiz technologies that would be >>> good candidates for a stand-alone library? >> That sounds fine to me. Before getting started you might even want to ping >> the commons PMC to see how they would prefer for you to go about it. They >> might want you to isolate things as a library and then put it in a jira >> issue, or maybe they'll just welcome you as a committer for a certain part >> of the commons repository, or maybe they'll have another preference >> altogether... :) >> -David
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