My apologies to all. I didn't mean to offend. I think ofbiz is a fantastic project, and I'm very grateful for the community involvement, developers, and contributors. I'll try to behave better.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:16 PM, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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???? >>> >>> > >
