Chris Howe wrote:
As far as how you offer your contributions, feel free to do so any way you wish. However, consider what your intention is in your contribution. The manner you suggest benefits very few, and more specifically may not be beneficial to the OFBiz community, for which you are saying that you specifically are not wanting to be a parasite to. If your intention is to benefit the OFBiz community, to cover as many bases as possible, consider at a minimum to offer your contribution to JIRA, even if it's not likely to be added into the project itself. In my opinion, offering it to JIRA, you're being clear that it is your work and that you are offering it under the Apache license (others may certainly disagree with that opinion).
I'd like to second what Chris suggested. I have contributed enhancements to Jira that, for one reason or another, weren't deemed acceptable for inclusion in the project. I keep those contributions updated against the latest SVN so that others can use them. Who knows, maybe in time there will be enough interest to get them included. In the meantime they're readily accessible to the OFBiz community.
-Adrian
