Hi all, I have looked mainly into the SFA and Project Mgt components over the last few months and am more than willing to help these components (for starters) forward. Even in a greater role than just providing feedback.
Regards, Pierre. 2009/12/7 Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> > Thi is all great, > > Put please ladies/gents don't get out of subject. > I still think the 1st step is to fix the bugs we know exist, are documented > in Jira and even ready to be fixed with patches for some. > > > Jacques > () ascii ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org > > > From: "Anil Patel" <anil.pa...@hotwaxmedia.com> > > We do see some great Ideas around what is needed. There was lot of >> conversation on this topic in ApacheCon 2008 and then in 2009 (based on >> messages on list). >> >> You will be surprised there is lot done. We have seen lot of activity in >> documenting business processes and end user documentation. >> >> More recently David proposed a simple system derived from Ofbiz that will >> address needs of small business. >> >> We have lot more Ofbiz technical contributors then Business process >> knowledge contributors. It will be really nice if people in this part of >> community will step up. It will be nice if business users or power business >> users who are technical developers as well started to take part of >> requirement documents and add to UBPL or EZBIZ effort. >> >> If users can document their business processes needs, give some wireframe >> help then technical developers will be able to help map them to OOTB >> features (Gap Analysis). >> >> Unless we get real business requirements documents coming from user >> community there is no way for us to fulfill them. >> >> I hope you understand I am not asking anybody to break NDA or whatever. >> >> Thanks and Regards >> Anil Patel >> HotWax Media Inc >> Find us on the web at www.hotwaxmedia.com or Google Keyword "ofbiz" >> >> On Dec 6, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Cimballi wrote: >> >> Hi devs, >>> >>> Here my opinion about the subject. >>> To make things clear, it makes about 3-4 month I am working with >>> OFBiz, using it to implement a project. >>> >>> I thing one way to have more people involved in the project is to >>> lower the "difficulty level" required to understand OFBiz. >>> >>> And for this there are several possbilities, and I will focus on two : >>> - modularize the project >>> - more functional documentation inside the source files >>> >>> Modularize the project >>> >>> I've seen this subject has already been discussed and I think it can >>> profit to the project in several points : >>> - more modules means less code in each module, which means modules are >>> eaiser to understand, which means more developer may be interesting to >>> participate to its development, test, ... There is at least one >>> obvious module which could be very interesting to externalize, it's >>> the entity engine. I don't know so much OFBiz architecture but I think >>> it should be possible to externalize this module and a lot of projects >>> totally different of OFBiz could be interesting in it, and so >>> potentially a lot more developers to maintain and enhance it. >>> - on another side, more modules would also make it easier to >>> distribute the issues, each developer specialized on a specific >>> module. Maybe it's already the case... >>> >>> More functional documentation inside the source files >>> >>> Here my feeling is that with OFBiz, you really requires both technical >>> and functional knowledge to understand how the project work. Some part >>> like the entity engine are purely technical, but the order module for >>> example is really functional, I mean, you need to know a lot about how >>> ordering works in a company to be able to use the module and even more >>> to custommize or propose enhancements to it. So, with more >>> documentation in the source files, like the XML entity files, and then >>> in the source code for example explaining what a method concretly does >>> may help a lot to understand OFBiz. It seems the link David sent about >>> UBML is about his. >>> >>> Here is my feeling about OFBiz as a fresh developers. I try to >>> participate to the project at least by providing bug reports, I still >>> feel for away from providing patches ! :-) >>> >>> Hope this will help you, devs, the project is already great, let's >>> make it more accessible ! >>> >>> Cimballi >>> >> >> >> > >
