Re: Users - Community Addons

Posted by David E. Jones on Dec 10, 2005; 10:40pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-Community-Addons-tp136698p136699.html


How are you creating and applying the patches? Usually things worked  
fine, though I have noticed that sometimes removed files will just be  
emptied instead of being removed.

The basic commands are: "svn diff > mystuff.patch", and "patch -p 0 <  
mystuff.patch"

For added/removed files do the "svn add" and "svn remove" commands  
before doing the diff.

There are still some snafus and things that I have to work around and  
stuff, but unless a patch is against a different revision and things  
have changed it usually isn't too big a deal.

For putting it in the Catalog Manager, it probably makes the most  
sense as a new application level tab (ie a link like Features,  
Promos, Price Rules, etc; in a appheader.ftl file or in a *Menus.xml  
file on some other apps).

-David


On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Chris Howe wrote:

> I'm fine with it going anywhere that you are.  I just
> don't see a place in the Catalog Manager where it
> fits.  If you see a place where it looks good, I'll
> refactor it to go there.
>
> Also, I am having horrible trouble with creating SVN
> patches.  I recently redid the entire
> specialized/wholsale app to use screen widgets and
> reuse existing code.  When I tried to apply the patch
> to a fresh SVN checkout, any files that had the same
> name maintained the original code and just appended my
> code to the end.  Also, it didn't remove the files
> that I had removed (like pagedefs,etc).  Any guidance
> would be much appreciated.
>
> ===============David Jones wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> This may be something that chould/should go in the
> "specialized"
> folder in the current ofbiz SVN repository. These
> haven't seen as
> much community attention outside of the main
> developers of them as
> the core applications in OFBiz, but they do get some
> attention so
> you'd probably have at least a bit of help with them.
>
> I looked at the screen shot you sent to Jira, and I
> think that this
> could become a screen in the current catalog manager
> just fine if
> you're interested in that. Enhancements and additions
> like this have
> been going into the catalog manager for a while, and
> there is
> certainly room for more as the Product and related
> data model is
> quite large and difficult to understand, so tools to
> help with this
> are worthwhile.
>
> On the licensing issue... In general all artifacts in
> OFBiz _should_
> have one and only one copyright notice for "The Open
> For Business
> Project", and to make it clear we put the URL in there
> too. The
> implication is that the copyright is assigned to the
> project, however
> this has not been explicit in the past. If/when we
> move to Apache the
> copyright will be owned by the ASF and it will be
> explicit that all
> copyrights of contributions are assigned to the ASF.
> As far as #3
> goes, that is one reason we are moving toward joining
> the ASF...
> contributors can feel more comfortable that their
> contributions will
> be kept in a good license and "owned" by a good
> organization.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Chris Howe wrote:
>
>> I've been working on a couple of mini apps that dumb
> down some of
>> the back office stuff. For instance one that allows
> the user to
>> build a catalog by adding products from a previously
> created
>> catalog by showing both catalogs on the same
> screen(useful when you
>> have multiple vendor catalogs in your deployment and
> want to create
>> your company's catalog by picking which products to
> include in your
>> categorized makeup).  This of course using as little
> additional
>> code as possible.
>>
>> Now would this be beneficial to the OFBiz community,
> Yes.  Does it
>> belong in the overall project.  Probably not, simply
> because it
>> duplicates existing catalog app functionality.  It
> just makes it
>> easier for non techie people to create catalogs when
> their vendors
>> can supply xml versions of their catalogs.  (Not to
> mention David
>> and Andy et al have better things to do then try to
> make sense of
>> my  irregular coding habits) I want to share thi! s
> but have a
>> couple of things standing in the way.
>>
>> #1 I do not wish to maintain it
>> #2 I don't want to host the file for download
>> #3 I don't want someone to be able to license it in
> a way that I
>> can no longer benefit from my own contributions
>> #4 I want anyone to be able to use it and change it
> to suit their
>> needs without reservation
>> #5 I want the OFBiz project to be able to
> incorporate it if they so
>> choose without creating headaches if they decide to
> change to the
>> Apache license.
>> #6 I want it to solicit the contributions of others
> in a similar
>> manner (ie not world class additions to Ofbiz, but
> helpful none the
>> less)
>>
>> I was thinking something along the lines of what
> osCommerce's
>> community does.
> http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions
>> but again, I don't want to maintain it lol.   Any
> suggestions?
>>
>> I'm also working on dumbed down mini apps for price
> rules and a
>> quick lookup for what price a! customer has
> purchased a product for
>> in the past.
>>
>
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