Add the `dist` command to the Windows `refine.bat` file like we have for Linux `refine` script

[thadguidry]

• [ ] Add the dist command to the Windows refine.bat file just like we have in the Linux refine shell script.
  • [ ] We might use the command mvn -Drevision=<version> package -P windows in the dist command?
• [ ] Allow it to take a version parameter as it does in the Linux refine shell script.
• [ ] #7088
• [ ] Ensure that upon starting OpenRefine that on the main Project page, that same version number is shown in the lower left About area.

[Michael-Cardentey]

is anybody else working on this? I'd like to try resolving the issue

[thadguidry]

You can certainly work on this subtask issue @Michael-Cardentey ! This is only to add the dist command (and help text for it). The command's execution should occur, but is not expected to complete with success, because that depends on #7088 and #6878 to eventually be completed.

[thadguidry]

@Michael-Cardentey Hello again! If you are not going to work on this or lost interest, we have another contributor @shwetd19 who would like a chance to work on it. Would that be ok @Michael-Cardentey, or do you intend to finish this shortly in the next week or two?

[devatbosch]

Hi @thadguidry ,

I recently started my journey to open-source and came across this issue. How do I see this is already assigned to another person but I was curious to know exactly how do you fix it and what changes did you expect to fix this issue

Not to worry, I am not going to replicate these changes and create a PR.

But Just out of curiosity asking it.

Also, it would be pretty helpful if you can help me find some issues I can work with as I see most of the issues in "Issues" tab have either already been assigned or are too old...

Thank You!

[thadguidry]

I don't know how to fix otherwise I would have assigned myself to it and fixed it :-)

You might filter our issues by the label "good first issue". You might also try out OpenRefine using tutorials we have listed in our docs as well as following our technical reference on how to build OpenRefine and test it.

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[wetneb]

I would encourage you to only mark an issue as a "good first issue" if you are confident you would be able to tackle the issue yourself very easily, @thadguidry. Otherwise you might be attracting people to an issue that's difficult to solve, which might be frustrating for them.

[2897robo]

Hi, I'd love to contribute to this issue! May I take this on? 😄

[wetneb]

Given that the refine dist command doesn't work on Linux either, I think imitating its behaviour on Windows wouldn't be very useful. I would recommend to remove the "good first issue" label on this issue and encourage @2897robo to work on something else.

[SoryRawyer]

I think that's a good point @wetneb. Do you know if there's a good reference for the intended behavior of refine dist? I know there's the mac_dist function in the refine script, but I'm not sure exactly what would need to happen to translate that to Linux and Windows.