Doing significant data model cleanups and changes is a LOT of work with a large code base and user community. All code that uses the data structure needs to be changes, and accommodations are needed for deprecating the old entity or fields and migrating data to the new ones. So yes, to the point Jacques made, it's not likely short-term and without significant investment and coordination with others in the community it is not really likely long-term either.
For years I built up a list of changes that would be nice to do in OFBiz itself, but so many are not really feasible. There may still be some of them worth doing, so for some ideas to consider here are my change notes for the Mantle data model: https://github.com/jonesde/mantle/blob/master/mantle-udm/Planning.txt At this point there are lots of generic services and end-to-end automated tests that use many of these changes to the data structures so they are pretty well vetted and validated and not just theoretical like when this thread started a couple years ago. One of the benefits to many of these changes is that not only is the data model smaller and cleaner, but it makes it possible to simplify or eliminate large amounts of logic layer code. For OFBiz, along the lines of the reasons mentioned above, that would involve quite a few code changes but maybe the best way to look at it is that this is the main reason to do the data model changes (ie simplifying and eliminating code) as opposed to just changing the data model for the sake of the data model itself. -David On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:57 AM, Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's still alive, but I bet it will not be short-term... > > Jacques > > On Friday, January 17, 2014 12:34 PM, [email protected] wrote >> Is this subject still valid? And wouldn't it be great to have one (or some) >> of the subjects on the (short-term) roadmap? >> >> Regards, >> >> Pierre Smits >> >> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* >> Services & Solutions for Cloud- >> Based Manufacturing, Professional >> Services and Retail & Trade >> http://www.orrtiz.com
