Hello Pierre,
Le 13/05/2015 12:35, Pierre Smits a écrit :
For what it is worth, the BOOTSTRAP_theme dev branch is a other way to
enhance the user experience. Unfortunately the work is not done yet.
The problem is that the GUI is a demo GUI. Then all the time you spend
to solve all GUI problems, will potentially lost because nobody use it
(and when I say that I think in particular to the order screen that is a
nightmare...).
It's better that OFBiz embedded GUI web framework (like bootstrap but
not only, it can be bootstrap based tool for dashboard, etc.) and a
documentation on how to use it.
The
same goes for enhancing the various xsd files (and associated java
functions and ftl scripts) to bring OFBiz widgets up to par with HTML5,
CSS3 etc.
OFBiz contains a ton of business functionalities. Gems hidden in
components. The are, however, not that visible to the - potential - users
due to a number of factors:
- no descriptive placeholders in the wiki
- no howto guides
- overwhelmed by the sheer multitude of clickables when accessing a
component as the admin user
- etc
Creating the visibility will be the fuel for more adopters and
contributors. I have started on that path with
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Features
Yes, it's very important as well. Documentation, visibility, marketing.
It's just a matter of priority. Very important VS very very important...
Julien.
Having contributors being able to enhance documentation is not enough.
Funnelling patches on JIRA issues through the few with privileges and
having an interest in helping the non-privileged to enhance business
functionality (even if it is only a small bug fix or improvement) is
detriment to growth. Because when patches aren't reviewed and committed
(when good) in a reasonable time frame, the patches might get stale.
We have lots of people committed to OFBiz. When do we start recognising
that, and enable those contributors to do more?
Best regards,
Pierre Smits
*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com
