Most likely you already know that, if you want to send a pull request to one of the OXID public repositories, it is policy to agree to a contributor license agreement (CLA) before. Please read more about the why and what in OXID's FAQ on this topic. When we started accepting contributions, it was still necessary to sign a paper manually and to send it back to us; later we found a service that [Read more...]
A couple of days ago we were surprised by an unusual pull request on GitHub. The contributor, @Haehnchen, simply requested to remove the file .phpstorm.meta.php because of a native PhpStorm plugin. Indeed, Daniel Espendiller, the real name behind @Haehnchen, wrote and distributed a well working native OXID plugin for JetBrains PhpStorm under MIT open source license. As he describes, this plugin [Read more...]
If you want to send a pull request to a certain project on GitHub, you first have to fork it to your own repository and then - in the most cases - clone it to your local machine. If you're contributing to a very active project with many commits, the size of this download will grow over the time. This is because the entire commit history of the project will be cloned to your machine as [Read more...]
On March 22nd, last Sunday, our new baby, my fourth son, gave us the honor of his presence on earth. Mom and baby are well :-) I should have informed you immediately but all my other boys before were in time or some days late - just this little man decided to be born a bit early... So I started my planned parental leave unexpectedly early, and I tell you: I was really busy in the last week [Read more...]
Let me trigger one of the most noteworthy pull requests to the OXID eShop repository at GitHub in the recent past. @adriankirchner, developer at dotfly (OXID solution partner) committed a fully functional Travis CI configuration. With this contribution it is not only possible to check at a glance if the unit and integration tests are presently passing. Also, contributors get notified whether [Read more...]
OXID eShop is available under two different licenses, GPLv3 and a commercial license. That's why contributors have to sign up a so called "OXID Contributor Agreement" (OCA) before their contributions can be merged. In the past, this step was painful: most contributors didn't read the README.md file attentively enough and had to be pointed during the discussion about their contribution to the [Read more...]
The weather in Germany usually becomes rainy, grey and cheerless by the end of October / beginning of November, so no wonder some people move for a holiday trip southward if they can afford it. An interesting idea is to combine both, job and holiday and to stock up on some sunshine while working in the bright and sunny realms. This is exactly what some of the developers - I count myself [Read more...]
For my next tutorial about writing modules for OXID eShop I chose a very simple example. The aim is to round up the display of the price on the product details page to the next five cent (or any other currency of your choice). This is because there are countries where it doesn't make sense to display prices like 7.99 EUR because the value doesn't even impact on your money bag and the tax [Read more...]
Upfront: although I probably have a good technical understanding I am not a software developer. So it’s a pleasure to thank my mates @tabsl, @vanilla_thunder, @jkrug @l3k, @stasiukaitis-saulius and especially @DSB for the patient, almost friendly help while writing this OXID eShop module sample, and letting me understand what each line of code does. My thanks also goes to my mate @stew who usually [Read more...]