Someone did it http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-month-of-apache-tapestry-5
Jacques On Saturday, November 29, 2008 9:16 AM Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> wrote: > While working on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2058 I had also > an idea about how to deal with OFBiz requirements > from a community POV. > > In Open source world there is the well known notion of bounty for feature. >> From time to time (rarely) someone offers to pay for a feature he/she needs. > But this is not used in an official way in OFBiz yet (there are no arranged > place for that maybe because there are too few needs). > > Actually the idea I had is a reversed bounty concept. It will not be a person > or organisation that will make a pledge for a > feature but a person or organisation that will submit a quote for a new > feature to be commited in OFBiz. > > This came to my mind while working on a quote for a VAT stuff. > Let me explain : a lot of people need VAT/GST (I guess most countries but > USA). I have open a Jira issue to centralise efforts > OFBIZ-366. > David Garett (OFBIZ-416) and Marco Risaliti (OFBIZ-1262) contributed big > patches in the past and I wanted to review them but did > not find the time to do so seriously and was not sure it was the right way to > go at this time. > Also one thing that discouraged me was that both David and Marco was seeing > their patches as not ready to be commited. They are > now partially unmergeable but I'm sure with still some interesting ideas/code > in them. > There is also an interesting recent thread > http://markmail.org/message/bkqmwwvswzlgzbfr and an even more recent wiki page > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/VAT (actually these informations are > referenced at OFBIZ-366 bottom). > > The reversed bounty concept is applicable for "feature" like VAT which > actually may cover a lot of things (which are not obvious > at 1st sight). > > How I see it : one person, a team or an organisation propose to develop a new > feature that has proven in the past to interest a > lot of people but has not been developed in OFBiz because being an huge work > or not well enough defined > Actually by "propose" I mean detailled requirements to be freely discussed in > dev ML. Could be also direct estimates like in > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/CRM+Sales+Force+Automation+Plan > > For instance, for VAT we know there have been some "proprietary" > implementations. > I guess mostly because it seems difficult to coordinate efforts on things > that at 1st sight appears to be countries or > organisations specific. > > But, from the links above, we know also that there are some commons features: > * periodic Tax Authority VAT report (input minus input) : by Tax Authority > * affect GL accounts (by Tax Authority) default being VAT Purchases/Sales > respectively linked to Assets and Liabilities GL > accounts > * show prices VAT inclusive everywhere it's needed (some issues : OFBIZ-1086) > * how to apply VAT on discount (some categories, not so much) > * etc. (more details in VAT wiki page) > > Sorry for the long and disorganised post. I'm trying to find a new way to > earn a living (crisis effect ?). Reverse bounties could > be shared of course... > > Jacques > PS : I was not the 1st to have this idea. Curious I just found that a Drupal > developer has already suggested a such thing
