OK, By and large, I think it's better to let people handle change in this page themselves (those who have no access should ask of course)
I'd love to have a roadmap page derived from this one (simplified). But if it's only wishful thinking I don't see any interests. Jacques On Friday, January 31, 2014 11:30 AM, jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com wrote > 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
