I agree with a separate community approach, for these reasons:
The special purpose components started out as little demonstrations of
how OFBiz can be extended to role-specific applications. Since then,
some of those components have expanded into full-featured applications -
so the overhead of maintaining them has increased beyond what we
expected initially.
Some special purpose components were included as the result of a
community discussion and effort, but others were simply "dumped" into
the repository without any discussion or community participation - and
as a result they receive little support.
Some special purpose components were created and initially supported by
community members who are not around any more.
As a result of all of these things, the special purpose components are
not well maintained.
From my perspective, if anyone believes a component needs more
attention and would like to develop it further, then they should spin it
off to a separate project.
So, instead of having a conversation about how the OFBiz community can
better support the Project Manager component, maybe we should have a
conversation about how to spin it off to a separate community.
Opentaps started off that way. Initially, it was OFBiz plus additional
components: Financials, CRM, and Warehousing.
I think the OFBiz community would benefit if we stopped trying to be all
things to all people, and instead focus on providing a sound and
flexible data model - combined with robust, reliable services. Special
purpose applications, and even presentation layer details can be left to
other communities.
Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com
On 11/7/2014 4:02 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
I may be beating a dead horse but what Jacopo is proposing and the
concern that Jacques raised about resources would seem to fit very well
into a sub-project structure.
Split these modules out of the main line into their own OFBiz
sub-projects where they could attract their own resources (committers
even) and would be responsible for delivering modules that worked with
the various OFBiz cores that exist.
Let the sub-projects worry about their own relationship to OFBiz
releases and release branches.
They might just support the released 13.07.xx version, if that is what
the sub-project's user community can support or they might maintain 2
versions 13.07 and a 14.xx. that works with a recent version of the trunk.
In any case, it would no longer be a problem for the OFBiz core
developers and they could release just the OFBiz components that are
officially part of the core.
Clearly good communication between the core project and the sub-project
about release plans would help everyone but the core group would be
basically free to release the core as they want and the sub-projects
would have to communicate to their uses communities what impact this
would have on the users of the modules.
If a sub-project needs a change to the core to implement some feature,
they would have to file an enhancement JIRA issue and convince someone
to add it (unless they are a committer on the core).
If two sub-projects had a compatibility issue, they would at least know
who to talk to get a solution.
Ron
On 07/11/2014 7:04 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
On Nov 7, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Jacques Le Roux
<jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote:
This will no longer work for some components (scrum for instance)
I believe we could be reintroduce some specialpurpose component in
next release,
There is a difference between including them in a release branch and
including them in the releases: I would be more inclined to include
(all of them) in the release branches but exclude them from the
releases; this would simplify the work required to keep them in synch
and would also help end users to integrate them.
However the specialpurpose components should be disabled in order to
avoid the users to get a default ootb release/branch with enabled
special purpose functionalities that may override the more general
purpose ones offered by the core applications.
We should still consider the idea of providing separate products for
the specialpurpose components (and having them in the branch would
help this process).
If the idea I am proposing here (include the specialpurpose components
in the branch but not in the releases) we could re-add them (as
disabled) also to the 13.07 branch but exclude them from all the
releases (13.07.02 etc...): this will protect all the stabilization
work we did on the branch (and also from some licensing issues that
may affects some of the artifacts in some of the specialpurpose
components) .
Jacopo
as long as they are backed by some efforts, come to mind
project manager (Pierre Smits?)
scrum (Hans?)
examples and ext (at least me)
myportal (French people use portals, not sure for myportal?)
Other components?
IRRW Jacopo said he was not against a new discussion on this subject
(I could not find his message), what do you think?
Jacques
Le 21/10/2014 09:06, gil portenseigne a écrit :
I've never used svn external property, just discovering. That sounds
usefull and i'll try it out !
Thanks for the advice !
Gil
On 20/10/2014 19:08, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
I use svn external in the stable demo, already explained that in
the MLs: see
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/tools/demo-backup/branch13.7-demo.patch?view=markup
You can use the same to keep in sync, only consider projectmgr in
your case. Since there is no projectmgr in R13.07 the risk of
gettins conflicts or build issue is extremely low
Jacques
Le 20/10/2014 17:28, gil portenseigne a écrit :
Hi Jacopo,
Ok then, i will have to re-synchronize new trunk devs each time
i'll feel it necessary. My fear is about incompatibility between
13.07 and trunk technologies, but that won't happen soon, or i
might backport the evolution into my local environment.
That will do the job !
Thanks
Gil
On 20/10/2014 16:36, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
Hi Gil,
I would suggest to check it out from the trunk to the hot-deploy
folder of 13.07:
cd hot-deploy
svn co
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/projectmgr
Jacopo
On Oct 20, 2014, at 4:11 PM, gil portenseigne
<gil.portensei...@nereide.fr> wrote:
Hi all,
I don't want to relaunch the debate around including the
projectMgmt component into the 13.07 release, but i have a
question :
What is the best way to import the projectMgr component in my
local 13.07 checkout environment, to start using it in a real
project and to contribute on upgrading it for trunk and/or the
13.07 release ?
Trunk technical evolution might be a problem if a want to stick
to 13.07 release with projectMgmt features.
Should I use trunk instead ?
Cheers
Gil
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