Chris.
On 2010-03-14 09:57, Chris Travers wrote: > 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? Excellent! Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
