Yep. Another New Years resolution is to get that Wiki functionality
packaged
into a form that is readily consumable by the community and get the
source
out on webslinger.org. Stay tuned for that... we're trying to get
it into a
presentable form.
Humane URLs is one of our focuses. As much as possible we want to
get URLs
into a form that one human can say them to another human over a bad
cell
phone connection and retain link integrity.
Do you still have any interest in possibly getting this into OFBiz
itself? You guys are already under CLAs, so it should be pretty easy
from a legal perspective at the ASF.
That is, IF you want to of course.
On a side note, if this is a direction that interests you I briefly
discussed this with my partners and we do have some time on current
contracts where if this meets their needs we could get involved quite
a bit in reviewing, helping with improvements/cleanups, and getting
it added to OFBiz.
Anyway, think about it and if it is of interest we should maybe get a
conference call going to talk about timing and details (sorry
everyone, I know that isn't very open of me to propose, but getting
funding on our side will require some planning and coordination
involving non-public information, etc).
Which raises the interesting spectre of Confluence/JIRA itself.
Wouldn't it be
productive if there was an Open Source product like JIRA that
tracked your
activities and man-hours and made it dirt easy to associate them
with work
orders and invoices. Wouldn't it be even better if that tool let
you link
together with other shops using the same tool to form virtual
organizations
with consolidated activity tracking and billing? Such organizations
would be
capable of attacking large scale implementation activities.
Wouldn't that be
interesting and fun?
YES. In addition to interesting and fun, helpful, convenient, slick,
satisfying, and cool come to mind...
Eventually I think we could and should get OFBiz running on OFBiz for
project and content management. This has come up a few times as we've
moved from one tool and hosting situation to another, but we just
haven't had the resources to fill in the gaps in OFBiz in order to do
so... yet...
My thought on this is that at least 2-3 of us should commit to
getting our own companies running on it in the next few months, and
then once this has stabilized for us who are using it we should be
_close_ to the point where it will be happy for something like OFBiz.
I can't WAIT to _finally_ have a separation between requests,
requirements, tasks, etc rather than having everything handled as an
"issue"...
For our company right now we are already in a situation of system
bloat. We don't cycle through a lot of clients/customers, but for
each one we have to enter them into:
1. CRM system (including calendaring, etc)
2. planning/project system
3. accounting system
4. communication systems (non structured, and not statused, ie stuff
like chat and vanilla email)
And that's not to mention things like SVN repos and such that we
don't plan to merge into the "big" system.
Most of these systems don't communicate with each other much, or at
all, but some of the ones we use do communicate with things like
desktop calendaring and contact info mgmt, and that would be really
cool to add to OFBiz. I find that sort of thing not to be too big a
deal, but something lots of people like, and it's certainly super
techno-hip, so we should do it sooner or later.
-David
