On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 14:34, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sangeeta, > > best would be to add Jira tickets in our bug tracker: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENMEETINGS > > We accept contributions via PR requests on Github: Fork > https://github.com/apache/openmeetings into your account and then do a PR > upstream. You will not have branch permissions on the public repository. > Smaller changes are more likely to be accepted quickly to be merged. > > As for running & development I still would prefer the jetty-embedded > commands: > https://openmeetings.apache.org/BuildInstructions.html#tips-and-gotchas > > As it allows you to change the Javascript + recompile JS/CSS code without > restarting the entire OpenMeetings Server. So it takes 3 seconds instead of > 3 minutes (plus your PC/laptop fan going to 100%). > If you do changes to Java/HTML code you would need to run some of the > other MVN commands and restart though. > > Thanks, > Seb > > Sebastian Wagner > Director Arrakeen Solutions > http://arrakeen-solutions.co.nz/ > > <https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/da4e8828-743d-4968-af6f-49033f10d60a/public_url> > <https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/b7e709c6-aa87-4b02-9faf-099038475e36/public_url> > > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 17:42, Sangeeta Verma <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> We are about to decide which one to use. For this customization is the >> key. We have lot of customization that needs to be done. >> So my question would be how do we incorporate new releases? If we go >> ahead with a different branch then I guess it will be difficult to >> incorporate new versions? >> > I would say there are different levels of customizations ... There are multiple ways to customize OM All described here https://openmeetings.apache.org/ top menu Configuration -> User interface/Customization some customizations would be individual for you In such case you can have your personal custom.css And your own Git repository In the latter case merging might be painful .... > >> Second question is - for customization how are each components like Menu, >> screens etc laid out? Is there any documentation on development? >> > please see the answer from Sebastian I personally don't like Jetty it doesn't work as expected in many cases, but this should be personal choice :))) We don't have too much documentation about how the code is organized Dive in :)) > >> Thank you, >> Regards, >> Sangeeta >> > -- Best regards, Maxim
