A gentle reminder, If you planning your weekend, save some time for Apache OFBiz :-)
Best regards, Swapnil M Mane, ofbiz.apache.org On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 7:45 PM Swapnil M Mane <swapnilmm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > Welcome August, we are back with OFBiz Community Days, hope you are > excited too! :-) > The community days are organized once per quarter so a total of four (4) > events throughout the year. > > We are having a sequence of 5 days that form the Community Days. This > extends the time frame and gives people more flexibility to contribute. So > this month our Community Days will run from today *23rd** – 27th August.* > > If you are new to the concept of Community Days then please take a look > at the following wiki pages > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Community+Days > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Community+Days > +Dates > > Anyone can participate (and we would like to encourage as many people as > possible to do so :-) > > If there is an OFBiz task or particular area that you would like to work > on then please see if you can set aside some time over the next few days > to do it. (Even an hour will help!) > > Remember that you do not have to work on it alone, our Community Days are > also a chance to collaborate with others in the community. > > Our Community Days are not only coding related, we would also like to do > some tidy up of our wiki and our project documentation. > > *Testing, Review and Committing Patches* > Testing and applying patches is always an important area. Many > contributors from the community have provided patches for bugs and > improvements but before committing them we need to test to them. > > Patches can become out of date very quickly meaning that if they are not > tested early enough then they can miss out on being included. We have a > large number of patches available so this could be a good opportunity for > test, review and commit. > > *Documentation* > We know that our current documentation could be a whole lot better so any > contribution that helps us improve it is welcome. > > *Jira Sprint* > I will create a Jira sprint "OFBiz Community Day (August 2019)" so > please add any Jira tasks when you are working on it. > This Jira Sprint helps us track and report on the work done during the > Community Days so please try to make sure your work is included. > To set the sprint on an existing issue, simply click on the "Edit" option > on the issue and select the sprint field. > > We should add the Sprint in all the cases, > 1.) If we create a ticket we should add it. > 2.) If we start working on an existing ticket (adding patch or closing it > after a commit) we should add sprint if it is missing. > > Basically adding Sprint will make sure the contribution will be counted in > OFBiz community days event, which is from 23rd – 27th August. > At the end of August's OFBiz Community day i.e. after 27th August. > This will help us in reporting. > > *OFBiz Slack Channel* > If you haven't already taken a look, our OFBiz Slack channel is available > all the time but can be especially useful when collaborating during our > Community Days event. Please join our room using the link below: > https://s.apache.org/ofbiz-slack-channel > > To chat with users and developers of Apache OFBiz. Please create a Slack > account using this invite link <https://s.apache.org/slack-invite> and join > the *#ofbiz channel*. <https://s.apache.org/ofbiz-slack-channel> Please > do *not* ask OFBiz questions/discussion in the #general channel. > > Let's work together to improve OFBiz, have fun and enjoy working together. > > > Best regards, > Swapnil M Mane, > ofbiz.apache.org > >
