Those who have been in this project since the beginning no doubt remember the original Statement of Direction, written in its earliest form in the first few months of this project. A copy with only minor changes can be found currently at http://ledgersmb.org/node/92
This document describes the overall vision of the LedgerSMB project. Now, more than three years into the project, it seems worth revisiting this, discussing it, and determining where we should focus more time and energy. I am going to further provide my own sense as to these questions here and request additional perspectives. I: LedgerSMB as Business Infrastructure The current discussions regarding 2.0 development for the first time are bringing LedgerSMB towards the fulfillment of this goal. The major goals initially set forth will be met in 2.0 in this area unless we either fall short of our goals, make mistakes, etc. I would like to add one point here, which is "many levels of interoperability." This is something we have started on in our discoverable stored procedure interfaces and I would like to see it continue with a (fairly) stable core table system, web services, and the like. II: LedgerSMB as a web applicationi Here I am less sure of the continuing relevance of our past goals. I have come to value transparency to experts more than abstraction to novices. However, the nice thing about having separable interfaces is that those who want more abstracted interfaces could have them (and there is no reason why a second template set would be required in many cases). I would therefore suggest the following changes: 1) Instead of "user-friendly naming of things" I would like to change that to "A choice of user interfaces" Change point 2 to: When given a choice of two problematic ways of doing things, warn the user and allow the user to resolve the problem. Change point 3 to: Beginner interfaces should be available for those considering LedgerSMB as an alternative to Quickbooks and similar products III: Universal applicability: We have made a great deal of progress here. I would like to add here: 1) A strong development community supplying addons. Otherwise, how does this all sound? Best Wishes, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
