Hi Markus. I certainly agree; but sometimes, in a very large and
complex project, making it easy is not that easy :-(. But we are seing
a spike in interest in GlassFish so we are going to try to improve this
in the near future.
THanks, and please keep your interest in GlassFish
- eduard/o
Markus KARG wrote:
> Eduardo,
>
> I have managed a dozen of open source projects on my own and know your
> problems certainly. But I learned one lesson very soon: If you have a
> lot of items on your stack and one of them is "make it easy for
> contributors to add their code", then do that before anything else. Why
> that? Because the easier it is to add small contributions, the more
> contributors will add code to the project. In turn, they will help you
> fix all the other items on your stack. If you do all the items on your
> own before making it easier to contribute code, then you will have to do
> all the work on your own while all the others cannot help you anything
> an get frustrated. I learned about that in my own projects, also in some
> projects I contributed to. So this is no critics, just a tip.
>
> If I find more time, I certainly will try out to contribute my changes
> for MaxDB (and maybe more) to Glassfish, but at the moment, I do not
> have the time to invest more time in the unnecessarily complex structure
> of the Glassfish code (in fact, the modularization is the main problem
> for Eclipse -- you have to add every single src folder manually, which
> needs hours of time).
>
> Have Fun
> Markus
>
> Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart wrote:
>
>>>It must be possible to download the code and type "ant" or press
>>>Eclipse's "build" button if you want to receive SMALL contributions.
>>
>>But
>>
>>>maybe you don't want them, actually?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Markus
>>
>>Yes, we want them. We are just your typical Open Source project:
>>there is always a long list of things to do.
>>
>>Let's see what others say.
>>
>> - eduard/o
>>
>>Markus KARG wrote:
>>
>>>As I wrote yesterday, I just want to spent a few hours contributing the
>>>code necessary to support MaxDB / SAPDB (which shouldn't be much more
>>>than editing a copy of the Sybase adaptor class).
>>>
>>>After spending three hours for downloading the Glassfish source and
>>>trying to convince Eclipse to compile, I gave up now. I don't have time
>>>to find out how to compile the source any longer. I read thousands of
>>>lines of how-tos for using Netbeans (which I don't have installed) and
>>>Maven (which I am not aware how to use) but there is no SIMPLE info on
>>>how to just let ANT or Eclipse run to get it built.
>>>
>>>Hey, remember, I just want to contribute one single class...!
>>>
>>>So is there a SIMPLE way to configure Eclipse to compile Glassfish
>>>available? Or is there build.xml I haven't found?
>>>
>>>I will neither learn how to use Netbeans nor how to administrate Maven
>>>just to contribute a class that is to be written in less than one
>>>hour. :-(
>>>
>>>So if there is no simple way to compile Glassfish or to contribute my
>>>code in another way, I am sorry, then I have to abstain from
>>>contributing to Glassfish (sad, but true, but my time is scarce).
>>>
>>>It must be possible to download the code and type "ant" or press
>>>Eclipse's "build" button if you want to receive SMALL contributions. But
>>>maybe you don't want them, actually?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Markus
>>
>>
>