Hi Pierre, your involvement is more than welcome, remind me when i am a bit slow :-)
Regards, Hans On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 10:36 +0100, Pierre Smits wrote: > 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 > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates
