THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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The committers of OFBiz are a core group of developers who have the ability to commit changes into the OFBiz source code repository. As the project has grown over the years, there have been more committers of projects, so we thought it would be a good idea to define what the roles and responsibilities of the committers are. These points below are based on discussions we recently had on the developers' list:
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- Subscribe to the dev mailing list, try to read the majority of the messages, and participate in discussions there
- Review and comment on issues in the Jira issue tracker
- Apply patches from Jira locally and test them and comment on the results
- Create patches to fix issues reported in Jira
- Get to know OFBiz and submit patches to fix problems or annoyances you find
- Follow the advice and do all of this according to the recommendations in the Contributors Best Practices document
Committing Changes
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It is the responsibility of committers to help fellow contributors to achieve a successful resolution of issues in JIRA. Committers should try, as much as possible, to avoid that patch files submitted to issues grow stale. It is a waste of effort and precious time on the part of a fellow contributor when patches grow stale, as rework needs to be done. Timely evaluation of patch files prevents the need for rework and re-evaluation. Showing interest in the work of fellow contributors builds better relationships and a healty community |
When committing changes, all committers should follow these general guidelines:
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