Hi Dagmar, Welcome to Apache Rave! Your question are relevant for you to contribute to rave. My comments are inline. Keep posting if you have any other questions. Jack just explained everything in great detail. Thanks Jack.
Thanks Raminder On Jan 17, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Dagmar Timler wrote: > Hi > > My name is Dagmar and I am a developer at a not for profit company in South > Africa called Cell-Life <http://www.cell-life.org>. We are hoping to use > Apache Rave for our portal. > > I found an issue (Rave-874 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAVE-874>) and > would like to submit a patch. I am following the instructions on the > website<http://rave.apache.org/get-involved.html>but am having a > couple problems. > > 1. I cannot assign the ticket to myself - presumably because my apache > JIRA does not have enough permissions I added you to JIRA and you will be able to assign the task. > 2. I don't see how to attach the patch to the issue (aside from just > attaching a regular file) Yes SVN diff for the trunk folder is the location to create patch. > 3. When I try submit my patch to the Apache Review System I keep getting > errors like "The file > > '/repos/asf/rave/trunk/rave-portal-resources/src/main/resources_jpa/dataContext.xml' > (r1433856) could not be found in the repository" (from the website) and > "The repository path "https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/rave"; is not in > the list of known repositories on the server." (using post-review) You need to specify SVN location for trunk while uploading the patch. That helps review board to create a diff view. > I wonder if someone could be so kind as to assist me and point me in the > right direction. I am sorry to waste your time with such Newbie questions. > > Kind regards > Dagmar
