Please understand that when you are speaking of the OFBiz "community" (or any 
Apache community) there is no "us" and "them". OFBiz is a community-driven 
project, meaning everyone involved in the community is a volunteer contributor, 
even those with commits privileges. None of the committers have any 
responsibility to you, so you'll need to try a different approach than blame, 
complaints, and pushing false divisions. I don't know how you normally deal 
with people you want something from, but there are better approaches to get 
people to do things.

If verbal abuse and attacks don't work, maybe you should step it up a small 
notch and try force, or at least threat of force? BTW, this is best done 
through lawyers and government as they prefer to be the only ones to do such 
things. If you're successful in a lawsuit perhaps you can get the police to 
come and arrest any community member with commit privileges who won't commit 
the patches you want. Oh wait, maybe that won't work either... that would just 
cause everyone in any jurisdiction you manage to manipulate to run away from 
the project and not be a committer any more, preferably before any personal 
legal action or arrest comes their way. Hmmmm. Maybe that won't work so well.

There must be some sort of better way...

-David


On Jul 14, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Mike Z wrote:

> The community (Abdullah Shaikh) took the time, researched, identified,
> coded, and submitted a patch.  I don't know what more could have been
> asked of the community.  I'm a new guy here true, but I'd like to know
> that if I took the time to submit a fix to ofbiz, for the benefit of
> the community, that it would be taken seriously, especially patches.
> 
> Since the feature doesn't even work, and creates a big ugly red
> message to the user, I would also guess that most implementations
> would choose not to enable this feature.
> 
> I guess I'll need to create my own local svn repository and patch it myself.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Scott Gray <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Each release is only as good as the community makes it.  Community is the 
>> key word here, nobody gets paid to make sure Mike Z is downloading a bug 
>> free release.
>> 
>> My guess is that most implementations have chosen not to allow customer's to 
>> cancel their orders and hence the bug doesn't concern them.  If it concerns 
>> you then download the patch, test it, report the results and eventually a 
>> committer will find some spare time to look at it and possibly commit it.
>> 
>> What else?  Possibly plenty else.  You can view the reported unresolved bugs 
>> by release in jira and you'll also need to be open to the possibility that 
>> there are other unreported bugs.
>> 
>> It is up to users of the release like yourself to test the features that you 
>> need working and if they aren't then report them.  Like I said, the release 
>> is only as good as the community makes it.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Scott
>> 
>> HotWax Media
>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>> 
>> On 15/07/2010, at 4:55 AM, Mike Z wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm testing my new store, when I decide to login as a user and cancel
>>> an order (which is suppose to work).  The user sees this:
>>> 
>>> The Following Errors Occurred:
>>> Error calling event: org.ofbiz.webapp.event.EventHandlerException:
>>> Service invocation error (Could not commit transaction for service
>>> [cancelOrderItem] call: Roll back error, could not commit transaction,
>>> was rolled back instead because of: Error in simple-method [Auto
>>> create OrderAdjustments
>>> [file:/opt/ofbiz-9.04/applications/order/script/org/ofbiz/order/order/OrderServices.xml#recreateOrderAdjustments]]:
>>> ; [Security Error To Run Auto Create Order Adjustments])
>>> 
>>> Odd.  Looking further, I discover that a bug was submitted back in
>>> OCT09, priority MAJOR, with a patch, and verified:
>>> 
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3075
>>> 
>>> Why wasn't it fixed in 9.04 SVN?  I'm sorry, but as a brand new user,
>>> the reason I chose 9.04 is because it is suppose to be the golden
>>> build, patched as required, rock solid.  All new users are directed to
>>> 9.04.
>>> 
>>> The bug actually exposes my INTERNAL paths!
>>> 
>>> So I have to ask.  What else????
>> 
>> 

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