First of all, I would like to mention our tentative roadmap for the releases:
• February 2014 - Apache OFBiz 13.07.01 • March 2014 - Apache OFBiz 12.04.03 • April 2014 - Apache OFBiz 11.04.04 (last release of the 11.04 series?) • August 2014 - Apache OFBiz 13.07.02 • September 2014 - Apache OFBiz 12.04.04 Summarizing, the new year 2014 will see the last release in the 11.04 series and the new releases in the 13.07 series; we will also issue 2 maintenance releases in the 12.04 series. We will also probably create a new release branch (14.?). This is going to be a lot of work and if we will be able to implement this release roadmap it will be a good achievement for the community. Then, here is my personal wish list: * integrate Atomikos Transaction Manager (to replace the existing old and incomplete Geronimo Transaction Manager); I did most of the work some time ago and also Scott helped me; but the effort is not completed (but we are close); this is on hold at the moment and it would be great to give it a final push * refactor the Product Search engine (and related data model) and replace it with a Lucene/Solr driven search; the same pattern could then be applied to other areas of the system; this would make the searches fast and scalable and also reduce greatly the codebase and remove load from the relational database * redesign security/authorization; there are different paths here (Adrian did some refactoring work already) but I would love to consider the integration with something like Apache Shiro: this would help to enhance the features we offer and also remove a big chunk of framework code * complete the support for the Groovy DSL: I have a working patch to extend its support to all screen/widget code: with it you can write the same groovy code for services, events and widgets (data prep scripts): in order to complete the support for data prep scripts my patch needs more work * continue and improve the maintenance effort of the OFBiz codebase: upgrade of external jars to latest releases, removal of old/unused stuff, better documentation of jar interdependencies, code review/enhancements, bug fixes, further modularization and slim down etc... * about releases: start (again) the discussion and define a plan for issuing separately the framework from the applications Jacopo On Dec 31, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Adrian Crum <adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> wrote: > Maybe we can use the start of the new year as an opportunity to consider the > future of OFBiz and update our road map: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document > > > -- > Adrian Crum > Sandglass Software > www.sandglass-software.com