Hi Guys, I am trying to widen my knowledge of OFBiz and so I started looked though the jar files that we import from other projects.
There are a number which are not running the latest version e.g. - lucene is 2.4.1 but latest stable is 3.0.2 even going back to the 2 branch the latest is 2.9.3 - ant is 1.7.1 but latest stable is 1.8.1 - freemarker is 2.3.15 but latest stable is 2.3.16 - log4j is 1.2.15 but latest stable is 1.2.16 the list goes on but I am sure you see what I mean. For me keeping these up to date would mean that people would get less errors when using OFBiz but my question is what would be the right way to help get these upgraded? I think it would go: 1. check mailing list if someone has tried to upgrade already and had problems; if so ignore. 2. locally upgrade 3. run ant tests 4. test the function that these jar files do locally 5. jira issue 6. upload patch 7. wait for a committer to add into the project. 8. rinse and repeat For ones like freemarker how do you know its working correctly? What would you be looking for if the ant tests worked etc? I would check in the log files for any error messages when using the system as a user but beyond that what else can you check? Cheers Sam
