Jacopo, While at it, should I create sections and add you in the https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document page?
Jacques On Monday, January 06, 2014 10:03 AM, jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com wrote > 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
