Hi Emily, It is good move. I suggest mifos team to look in to http://uy.jpos.org/minigl/miniGL.pdf for the General Ledger requirements of mifos. It is GPL licensed but, it is possible to provide a special license to be used for mifos.
Regards, Bharavi -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emily Tucker Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:01 AM To: Developer; Mifos functional discussions Subject: [Mifos-functional] Mifos Product Roadmap 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Mifos-functional mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mifos-functional ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Mifos-functional mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mifos-functional
