Re: Users - appreiciation and perspective was JOB _SANDBOX

Posted by David E. Jones on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-JOB-SANDBOX-tp137182p137204.html


I agree with Daniel on this, even these less than sure contributions  
can certainly have a place.

The best place to put these sorts of changes is in Jira new feature  
"issues". If you don't feel your patch is up to snuff, but it is  
helpful for you, just write out your thoughts. These sorts of patches  
may not make it into the project right away, but what would be  
_ideal_ for these and all patches is for people to try them out and  
comment on them, and where possible improve them.

I guess the main point with this sort of thing is that you never know  
where it will go... We've tried out all sorts of things over the  
years. Some have been thrown out (yeah, many tens of thousands of  
lines of code) and others have blossomed and fit together in ways we  
never even expected... all because through wide collaboration ideas  
can flow more freely and lots of people reviewing something will come  
up with stuff that is a lot better than any individual could ever  
come up with.

-David


On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:03 AM, Daniel Kunkel wrote:

> Hi
>
>>> I would donate the code I use, but it does not follow the  
>>> guidelines set
>>> down.
>>>
>>> David, andy and I may not see eye to eye, time to time, however I
>>> respect and appreciate the effort they and other have contributed.
>>>
>>
>> Sure and I think you are not the only one !
>>
>> Jacques
>
> <soapbox>
> It really hurts to see that a lot of time and energy has gone into
> improving OFBiz by various groups that are willing to share their
> changes, and are not simply because they believe their changes are not
> currently appropriate to be directly introduced to the trunk.
>
> I would like to see this change...
>
> We're missing the point of open-source. Linus Torvalds could never had
> gotten linux to the place it is now in a hundred years if he had  
> worked
> alone instead of sharing and exciting the mind, hearts, and energy of
> thousands of developers around the world. David and Andy I'm sure
> realize that the project wouldn't be where it is today without the
> efforts of many others.
>
> Open Source works because working together works.
>
> I'm not suggesting that any of these changes be put back into the
> project if they really don't conform to the programming standards, but
> by all means, if someone has taken the time and effort and expense to
> make changes, AND is willing to SHARE those changes back to the
> community, it's worth finding a place to the catalog the changes.
>
> My bet is that if one group found it worth their while to write the
> changes, more often than not, other groups need the same changes  
> too. I
> also believe that the most useful and needed of the modifications will
> be morphed into a form that is acceptable to be included back into the
> project.
>
> One not on proprietary enhancements...
>
> I'm not suggesting that each and every change a company makes needs to
> be shared back... I can understand not sharing if you've created a
> proprietary enhancement that gives your company an edge on your
> competitors, or if it is so directly related to your way of doing
> business it's not-likely to be useful...
>
> Can we find a way to share these changes, possibly as a Jira issue  
> with
> a patch, or a wiki section, or both?
> </soapbox>
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Daniel
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