Derby plug-in for 10.1.3.1 - suggestion / contribution

[Leslie Software <le...@yahoo.com>]

I recently upgraded to 10.1.3.1 and was pleased to see an eclipse plug-in available.  Previously I had been rolling my own out of the regular install.  I am using Derby in an RCP application and therefore have a desire to have a feature too.  After my upgrade I switched to using your distributed plug-in and changed my home grown feature to reference it instead of my home grown plug-in.  The one short coming of the distributed plug-in is that it lacks branding which means the derby feature does not present a logo on my application's about box nor does it offer links to licensing etc.  So, I tweaked the distributed plug-in to add branding information.  I copied the notice files from the normal distribution created a .gif file (based on your recent branding efforts) and created a branded feature.  Now Derby takes its proper place in my application's about box.  I have attached a screen shot of my app's about box and the Derby feature's about box.

I would like to suggest the official distribution also contain these changes.  What would be the right way to contribute this?  I have Eclipse projects that create my versions of the plug-in and feature plus I have a deployed image too.

Thanks,

Ian
 
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Ian Leslie - Shareware Author (mailto:lesliesoftware@yahoo.com)

Re: Re: Derby plug-in for 10.1.3.1 - suggestion / contribution

[Leslie Software <le...@yahoo.com>]

----- Original Message ----
>From: Andrew McIntyre <mc...@gmail.com>
>
>On 7/7/06, home4slc@pacbell.net <ho...@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>
>> I believe the most important part about this checklist is to complete an ICLA.
>> Also, please file a JIRA to attach the patch to.
>>
><snip>
>Hi Ian,
>
>You can file an issue without needing additional permissions. But to
>edit issues after they are filed, you will need to be added to the
>derby-developers group. You have two userids in JIRA, ianleslie and
>lesliesoftware, if you do need developer access to edit a JIRA issue,
>please let me know which id you would like granted access. Also, if
>you would prefer that I remove one of the accounts, I can take care of
>that as well.
>
>thanks,
>andrew


Thank you Andrew and Susan,
 
 I have logged JIRA issue 1488 (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1488).  I had a little trouble attaching screen shots - they never seemed to be visible.  So I gave up on that and just attached the .png files you have already seen.  I attached a .zip file that contains the core plug-in and a feature to go with it.  Interested people can give it a try if they like.  This is targeted at Eclipse developers who are creating an RCP application.  The same kind of thing could be done for people planning to install the .core and .ui plug-ins into their IDE as well that way Derby would show up in the Eclipse about box too - one thing at a time though:-)
 
 I am moving houses next week and do not expect to have a lot of free time but I would like to see this get contributed.  As you can see there are no code chagnes only packing differences.  Anyone with free time this week can take if from here if they like or I'll start looking at the SVN tree after that.  I take it further discussion and questions I have about that should be moved to the dev list.
 
 Ian
  
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Ian Leslie - Shareware Author (mailto:lesliesoftware@yahoo.com)

Re: Re: Derby plug-in for 10.1.3.1 - suggestion / contribution

[Andrew McIntyre <mc...@gmail.com>]

On 7/7/06, home4slc@pacbell.net <ho...@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> I believe the most important part about this checklist is to complete an ICLA.
> Also, please file a JIRA to attach the patch to.
>
> 3) Have you filed a JIRA before?  I believe you need to get developer access to do so.
> If you don't have this access, post a message to the derby-dev mailing list to request
> this access.

Hi Ian,

You can file an issue without needing additional permissions. But to
edit issues after they are filed, you will need to be added to the
derby-developers group. You have two userids in JIRA, ianleslie and
lesliesoftware, if you do need developer access to edit a JIRA issue,
please let me know which id you would like granted access. Also, if
you would prefer that I remove one of the accounts, I can take care of
that as well.

thanks,
andrew

Re: Derby plug-in for 10.1.3.1 - suggestion / contribution

[ho...@pacbell.net]

Hi Ian, 

This is great! We certainly are interested in your contribution. I'm not 100% sure about 
the process you need to go through to contribute this, but I'll outline what I think is 
the correct way and other folks can jump in that have more experience with this; 

1) Look at this section on the Derby web site: 
http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_comm.html#Contribute+Code+or+Documentation 
 
2) Read the DerbyContributorChecklist on the wiki:
http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyContributorChecklist
 
I believe the most important part about this checklist is to complete an ICLA.
Also, please file a JIRA to attach the patch to.
 
3) Have you filed a JIRA before?  I believe you need to get developer access to do so.
If you don't have this access, post a message to the derby-dev mailing list to request
this access.
 
As I said, others will hopefully jump in if I have missed something.
 
Regards,
 
Susan

----- Original Message ---- 
From: Leslie Software 
To: Derby-User 
Sent: Friday, July 7, 2006 4:16:20 AM 
Subject: Derby plug-in for 10.1.3.1 - suggestion / contribution 


I recently upgraded to 10.1.3.1 and was pleased to see an eclipse plug-in available. Previously I had been rolling my own out of the regular install. I am using Derby in an RCP application and therefore have a desire to have a feature too. After my upgrade I switched to using your distributed plug-in and changed my home grown feature to reference it instead of my home grown plug-in. The one short coming of the distributed plug-in is that it lacks branding which means the derby feature does not present a logo on my application's about box nor does it offer links to licensing etc. So, I tweaked the distributed plug-in to add branding information. I copied the notice files from the normal distribution created a .gif file (based on your recent branding efforts) and created a branded feature. Now Derby takes its proper place in my application's about box. I have attached a screen shot of my app's about box and the Derby feature's about box. 

I would like to suggest the official distribution also contain these changes. What would be the right way to contribute this? I have Eclipse projects that create my versions of the plug-in and feature plus I have a deployed image too. 

Thanks, 

Ian 

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Ian Leslie - Shareware Author (mailto:lesliesoftware@yahoo.com)