Thanks Scott.
I did a little investigating and I discovered the reason it was
abandoned was because one of the developers took the basic idea and
created a new project called Morph. So, there is a chance things will
work the other way around - there might be an existing library we can
use instead of our own conversion code. I will look into it some more
this weekend.
-Adrian
Scott Gray wrote:
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
