Thanks to everyone. I'll try these and see what turns up. Manually sifting through hundreds of Jira issues does not seem all that appealing.
-----Original Message----- From: Jacopo Cappellato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Jira submissions Hi Skip, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Somewhere a few days ago, I was told that Jira was the best place to put up > submissions that you want to give back to the community. > I was probably the one that suggested this. The main reason is for license issues and to be sure to be able to track the history of a contribution. > The question is, how does the community find those submissions that have not > been included in the release but might be right for them? Say I am looking > for a modified pos, or a new accounting UI or a fix to the way payments are > applied? > I know that searching for contributions in Jira is not very user friendly, however what I had in mind is the following: 1) you create and maintain a web site or a blog or even *better* a page in the OFBiz Wiki site (Confluence) where you describe all the contributions (not in trunk) that in your opinion are valuable ones 2) for the file download you point directly to the Jira issues 3) most of all, you will accept new contribution only thru the Apache Jira > I have just spent a half an hour browsing Jira and can't seem to figure out > how to identify these submissions. > > Perhaps I am using the wrong url at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ ? The url is the right one; I'm not an expert but there are a few reports that could help you with this, the reports are all located at the top right part of the above page; for example you may have a look at the "Contribution Report": https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ConfigureReport!default.jspa?selectedP rojectId=12310500&reportKey=com.sourcelabs.jira.plugin.report.contributions: contributionreport Jacopo > > Skip >
