Hi OFBiz users, Please continue to support the project by reviewing, testing and voting in Jira issues. Comments and opinions are also welcome. Here is a list of the Jira issues with patches available https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12314132 You can reuse this "Patch Available in OFBiz" public filter at any moment
Thanks for your help Jacques From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> > Thanks for the initiative Jacques. > Let's see how this experiment goes and then let's try to fine tune it; if it > is successful we could even set up a page in the Wiki with a list of top > contributors (people that have provided the biggest number of > votes/reviews/testing), this could be a nice way to keep record of their > effort and it would also be a measure of their contributions useful when the > PMC will discuss to invite new committers. > > Jacopo > > On May 12, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> > wrote: > >> Hi dear Apache OFBiz users, >> >> We have currently around 850 opened Jira issues, and within, 134 issues with >> patches provided. Obviously we, committers, can't cope alone with the >> contribution activity (remember, it's benevolent work). >> >> Some time ago we had a dicussion between PMC (Project Management Committee >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/JoB2) members about how to improve the >> quality and quantity of patches committed. >> >> We want to ask you, users, to help test, review and vote on pending issues, >> notably those with patches provided. >> >> We even discussed a voting/vetting process with a number of votes threshold. >> We would not review or commit issues that don't have more than a threshold >> number of votes and maybe at least one person other than the person who >> opened the issue who claims to have reviewed the code and tested it. I >> suggest this would not be a rule, a but a rule of thumb to be adjusted by >> experience. We could test it during a period and then fix the threshold >> (number of votes) and maybe other rules like diversity (sometimes you would >> notice votes from persons of the same company than the contributor), etc. >> >> Hopefully this would give contributors an incentive to solicit help from >> others in the community, leading to more community interaction and along >> with it more useful expectations, and eventually better quality and quantity >> of patches committed. >> >> We could begin this process today with >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4472 >> >> Thanks for your attention, and, as ever, all suggestions are welcome. >> >> Jacques > >
