that was not advise, just a funny remark on the choice of name for the new
release.. not everything has to be serious in life!
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Sam Birney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Emily has very clearly laid out our product strategy here, please be
> sincere in advising. This is something to which we are very dedicated.
> Does this fit with the community's knowledge of MFIs in practice?
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Andres Pacheco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> make suer you copyright "Cheetah" or else Apple will do, and sue you for
>> retroactive infringement!;-{)
>>
>> There is a high probability of that feline name being part of their OS X
>> product roadmap!;-{)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Emily Tucker <
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Mifos Community,
>>>
>>> Now that v1.1 has shipped, we'd like to update you on our product plans
>>> going forward.
>>>
>>> While working on v1.1, it became very clear to the Mifos team and many
>>> of our contributors that the current code base is extremely difficult to
>>> work in. As you may be aware, the original code for Mifos was all
>>> written by developers who are no longer part of the project, and in many
>>> cases was done in a way that is difficult to maintain and improve.
>>>
>>> Because of this, it took more effort and time to get to a stable release
>>> of Mifos v1.1 than should have been the case. We will still continue to
>>> maintain and make improvements to this code base for all customers, with
>>> the next milestone in this track being the release of the next Mifos
>>> version, codenamed "Rhino", in Q4 of 2008.
>>>
>>> On another track, in order to become better equipped for maintenance,
>>> rapid improvements, and product support in the longer term, we are also
>>> pursuing a strategy of completely re-architecting Mifos.
>>> Re-implementing the functionality of Mifos using open source standards,
>>> consistently high code quality, intentional APIs, and clean service
>>> layers will make it much simpler and faster for the team of developers
>>> (both internal and in the extended community) to add new functionality.
>>>
>>> We are just getting underway selecting the framework and tools for this
>>> project, and will continue to communicate openly with the extended
>>> community as we do this. We plan to use Spring's application framework,
>>> security subsystem, and other components to accelerate development and
>>> provide greater flexibility. We are evaluating Maven as a new build
>>> system, Freemarker as a new template system, TestNG as a new unit test
>>> system, Quartz for scheduling, and JPA as a new object-relational API.
>>> Not all of these decisions are final, and we certainly welcome community
>>> feedback, especially if you have relevant experiences with these
>>> technologies or other ones we should consider. They are mentioned here
>>> to give a sense of how we are trying to bring the Mifos technology up to
>>> date with mainstream open source Java development, and to use existing
>>> and mature open source solutions rather than writing custom code for
>>> basic operations.
>>>
>>> The codename for this project is "Cheetah". Our target is to release
>>> Cheetah sometime in the second half of 2009, but the final target date
>>> and schedule will not come until later.
>>>
>>> While this is a very exciting decision, it is also a big undertaking.
>>> The "Rhino" release, scheduled for the end of the year, will primarily
>>> contain small enhancements and bug fixes. Because new functionality
>>> built into Rhino will need to be re-implemented for Cheetah, we will be
>>> limiting the amount of new functionality in this track. Additionally,
>>> most of our resources, going forward, will be focused on Cheetah. One
>>> of Cheetah's primary goals is to make it easier to build features into
>>> the product (including integrations between Mifos and other systems) so
>>> although there will fewer new features added into Mifos in the short
>>> term, the investment in Cheetah will ultimately allow us to add these
>>> features more quickly.
>>>
>>> I realize this is a lot of information and I'm sure there will be a lot
>>> of questions and feedback. We'd like to hold a meeting to discuss these
>>> plans and answer any questions sometime in the next 3 - 4. More details
>>> to come shortly.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Emily and the Mifos Team
>>>
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