[midPoint] Issues, fixes and subscriptions (was: Re: Function "basic.norm()" works wrong)

[Radovan Semancik]

Hi,

The problem is, that Ł cannot be divided as a composite character in 
unicode. Therefore usual unicode-based normaliztion does not work. We 
need to implement a special case for this, add tests, maintain it ... 
and we currently do not have any active subscriber in Poland, so there 
is no income that could be used to fund this work. This particular fix 
is not difficult to do. But there are many pending fixes and 
improvements that are not difficult to do. Even if the fix takes few 
hours it is not a negligible work. A dozen issues, few hours each and a 
week is gone. Few more days are taken for testing and maintenance, 
communication, documentation, overhead and so on. It was not uncommon 
that the small community issues caused delays in midPoint releases in 
the past. MidPoint is now very comprehensive system and it has 
considerable code base. MidPoint maintenance is not a trivial task. And 
realistically, if we have some free developer time then it would be much 
better idea to invest that time to improve midPoint UX. Everyone will 
benefit from that, not just deployments in Poland.

We need to make sure our services provided to midPoint subscribers are 
sustainable and that we can maintain the quality. We need to be 
selective in what issues we fix as to keep the workload of the 
development team reasonable. And the guideline is: if the issue is 
reported by a subscriber or there is a significant probability that it 
will affect subscribers then we will fix it. For all the other cases it 
has to wait. Sometimes the wait means next 1-2 releases. But in some 
cases (such as this one) you have to wait until there is another 
subscriber that is affected. Which may be quite a long time. I'm sorry. 
That's how the market works. We have to pay our bills.

But, midPoint is an open source software. Anyone can fix this and submit 
a contribution. I'm quite sure there is a lot of Java developers in 
Poland that can easily fix this.

-- 
Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com



On 11/26/2017 10:53 PM, Wojciech Staszewski wrote:
>
> I did it already (MID-4288 
> <https://jira.evolveum.com/browse/MID-4288>), but was is pointless (no 
> subscription = no fix).
> I do a workaround:
> normalizedfamilyname = 
> basic.norm(user.getFamilyName()?.toString()?.replace("Ł","L")?.replace("ł","l"))
> and I'm ok with this.
>
>
> W dniu 26.11.2017 o 17:43, Martin Lízner - AMI Praha a.s. pisze:
>> Hi, I suggest you file it here: https://jira.evolveum.com/
>>
>> M.
>>
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>> 2017-11-23 21:06 GMT+01:00 Wojciech Staszewski 
>> <wojciech.staszewski at diagnostyka.pl 
>> <mailto:wojciech.staszewski at diagnostyka.pl>>:
>>
>>     Hi all!
>>
>>     There is a problem with function "basic.norm()".
>>     The polish letters "Ł" and "ł" are not transformed to "L" and
>>     "l", they
>>     are just disappear. :(
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     WS
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