Re: svn commit: r835490 - /ofbiz/trunk/applications/accounting/data/helpdata/HELP_ACCOUNTING_billing_accounts.xml

2009-11-12 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Jacques I see that the itemizedlist and orderlist docbook commands are available now. Thanks to everyone that worked on getting this going. I'm sure the formatting will be nicer for people to read. Jacques - does this mean that you're planning to help reformat all of the accounting help

Re: svn commit: r888763 - in /ofbiz/trunk/applications/accounting/data: ./ helpdata/

2009-12-09 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Jacques Thanks for committing my latest patch for the docbook online help. I took at the commit log and it only shows that 5 files have been modified. These are only the files that already existed in the svn. My patch OFBIZ-2219_DocbookAccountingHelp10.patch included 24 files (19 of them

Re: Rethinking our release strategy

2010-02-15 Thread Sharan-F
Hi It sounds like there 's some confusion as to whether the release branches are being updated with bug fixes or not. I thought they were. My focus has been pretty much been on OFBiz documentation and I find it very, very hard to document things as they are changing so fast. Features seemed to

Re: Accounting transaction for commission invoice

2010-02-22 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Bob I think you're right and I totally agree with everything you've said here. Although I'm not an accountant, I've written a lot of the OFBiz online accounting documentation. I think another possible Purchase Invoice type to go along with the ones you've mentioned (eg payroll etc) will be

Access to End User Docs and UBPL Space

2010-03-03 Thread Sharan-F
Hi The PMC gave me access to the OFBiz End User Docs space a while ago to add and update the accounting documentation. If going forward its all going to be maintained within Docbook then I'd like to tidy up the End User Docs space so that its clear to end users. With the infrastructure changes

Re: Paying off invoices under a billing account

2010-03-15 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Bob I'm no expert but I wrote the online help for the billing account screens. I've got a question from a process point of view. If your customer pays on an invoice by invoice basis then why use a billing account? The standard invoice payment process functionality (with agreements if you

Re: svn commit: r923126 - /ofbiz/site/index.html

2010-03-16 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Tim It was me not Ruth that gave Jacques these links. I did put a message on the user mailing list about this asking for feedback on this as well some other documentation I've put on the wiki and did ask for some guidance from the PMC but the only response I got was Jacques. I'll check

Re: svn commit: r923126 - /ofbiz/site/index.html

2010-03-16 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone I agree with Ruth – I'm OK for it to be removed if its causing problems. Do some formal rules exist already around this? If not then what about this as a suggestion? As there has been several misunderstandings related to what can and cant be put on the main page – could the PMC

Re: svn commit: r923126 - /ofbiz/site/index.html

2010-03-16 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Scott Sounds good to me too. I'll work with Ruth and we'll set a deadline for the 'short timeframe' for which she can do the fix. We'll notify that to this thread and if we cant fix it by that date then by we'll ask that the link be removed. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in

Re: svn commit: r923126 - /ofbiz/site/index.html

2010-03-16 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone I've spoken to Ruth and she thinks that it will be probably be early next week before the fix can be put in. If that's not acceptable then please remove the link now (otherwise we'll get back to you by next Tuesday 23rd March at the latest with the fix). Thanks Sharan -- View this

Re: OOTB Unit Tests (was Re: Stable trunk?)

2008-10-30 Thread Sharan-F
Hi BJ I've also been looking at testing from a user perspective (i.e. what they can see and do via the user interface). My method has been to take a high level process (eg Customer Sales) generate the use cases then break them down into detailed test scripts that follow an end to end flow. I'd

Re: OOTB Unit Tests (was Re: Stable trunk?)

2008-11-02 Thread Sharan-F
with BJ. But, if I can allow myself, in respect to OFBiz project, what kind of contribution would you envision ? Thanks Jacques From: Sharan-F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi BJ I've also been looking at testing from a user perspective (i.e. what they can see and do via the user interface). My

Proposal Guidelines for News Items

2010-03-17 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone I've created a page on the Wiki with the proposal suggested by Scott. I think this topic has been discussed in depth quite a lot lately – so I'd like to suggest that we try and finalise it so that it's clear for everyone going forward. Here's the link the the page with the proposal

Re: Proposal Guidelines for News Items

2010-03-17 Thread Sharan-F
Hi David If that's what the community wants then thats OK with me but I think we need to define what 'news' is. For example is the book by Packt publishing classed as news or promotional material? (To me its news but it also promotes Packt) I think if there can be any ambiguity then we need

Re: Proposal Guidelines for News Items

2010-03-17 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone I disagree with David – I dont think those are the only two options available. This is the issue the way I see it - it's about OFBiz service providers putting content (eg tutorials, guides, blogs) in the news section. So if all these are now to be moved to a wiki page – then

Re: Proposal Guidelines for News Items

2010-03-17 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Scott I think we're definitely on the same page here (excuse the pun). I was just posting a similar definition of news at the same time. Anyway I'm happy to volunteer my services to put some guidelines together if required. I'll change the title of the current page from News items to Wiki

Re: Suggested feature on new UI for the front page

2010-03-20 Thread Sharan-F
+1 -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Suggested-feature-on-new-UI-for-the-front-page-tp1599510p1676338.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: ApacheCon and OFBiz

2010-03-23 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Erwan Definitely! I think it's good promotion and marketing for OFBiz in general plus it can help attract new users. Ruth and I would be keen to do some of the sessions. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/ApacheCon-and-OFBiz-tp1679218p1679634.html Sent from

Re: all accounting specialists please read

2009-07-19 Thread Sharan-F
Hi If you think about unposted transactions or transactions that fall into the Error Journal then you can get the case where the GLAccountId isnt included in one or both sides of the accounting transaction. I think this normally happens because there is missing setup in the GL account defaults

Re: svn commit: r826406 - in /ofbiz/trunk/applications: content/data/helpdata/ humanres/data/ humanres/data/helpdata/ humanres/documents/

2009-10-18 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Jacques I've just been going through my testing routine for some more accounting online help and thought that I'd broken it - until I saw your message in this commit:-). Anyway I can see quite easily where the problems are and I'm happy to pick this up and fix it. I'll assume that you're OK

Re: Welcome Sharan Foga as new committer

2014-07-24 Thread Sharan-F
Thank you everyone for your warm welcome and good wishes! Being invited to become a committer was something that was totally unexpected for me (but nice too!) and I'm just happy to be able to continue working with everyone to improve OFBiz. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context:

Re: svn commit: r1614830 - /ofbiz/site/index.html

2014-07-31 Thread Sharan-F
Hi OK - I'll try and add the I am speaking... badge to the item. I did already include some links. The first link was only to the general ApacheCon Europe site http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe I think Jacques

Re: [VOTE] [RELEASE] Apache OFBiz 12.04.04 (4th vote)

2014-08-05 Thread Sharan-F
+1. Hashes and Signatures are fine. One minor thing I found was that the eCommerce Store didnt display any products on the main page although I could add products to the cart and create orders normally. If no one else has experienced this then I think it's just be related to my setup. -- View

Re: [VOTE] [RELEASE] Apache OFBiz 11.04.05 (2nd vote)

2014-08-06 Thread Sharan-F
+1 -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/VOTE-RELEASE-Apache-OFBiz-11-04-05-2nd-vote-tp4653110p4653213.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-21 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All I’ve been offline for a few days so missed the original post. Jacques – you’ve been running through the tutorial but please take a look in the main chapter on Business Accounting Setup on page 68. There is a paragraph as follows “It is important that you do not remove accounts that are

Re: Welcome Sharan Foga as new PMC member

2014-09-22 Thread Sharan-F
Thanks everyone for making me feel really welcome. I think it's really all about us continuing to work together to make OFBiz better and better! Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Welcome-Sharan-Foga-as-new-PMC-member-tp4655900p4655940.html Sent

Re: Moving the bi component from framework to specialpurpose

2014-11-20 Thread Sharan-F
+1 Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Moving-the-bi-component-from-framework-to-specialpurpose-tp4658661p4658707.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Wiki modifications : text translation

2014-12-08 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Gil I'm going to start moving the documents from the OFBTECH space into the Wiki today - so hopefully later today or tomorrow you should be able to access the Text Translation page. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context:

Re: Wiki modifications : text translation

2014-12-08 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Gil I've moved the page to the Wiki here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Text+Translation https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Text+Translation so you should be able to update it now. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context:

OFBTECH Security Redesign Pages

2014-12-08 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All Can I archive all of these pages regarding the Security Redesign? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/OFBiz+Security+Redesign https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/OFBiz+Security+Redesign Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context:

Discussion: Project Vision, Direction and Roadmap

2014-12-14 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All Based on feedback from ApacheCon in Budapest and also some previous discussions held on the mailing lists I’ve put together some draft documents that I’d like to use for a discussion: *Project Vision and Direction*

Re: Discussion: Project Vision, Direction and Roadmap

2014-12-15 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Adrian Thanks for the feedback. I agree that some link to Jira would be good. What I was thinking about was a couple of things: 1. In Jira we could create a high level issue that was the same as the high level tasks we describe in the roadmap. We could then create sub tasks as part of the

Re: Discussion: Project Vision, Direction and Roadmap

2014-12-15 Thread Sharan-F
Thanks - I will take a closer look at Jira and the Agile dashboard to see what could be useful. -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Discussion-Project-Vision-Direction-and-Roadmap-tp4659591p4659613.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at

Re: Discussion: Project Vision, Direction and Roadmap

2014-12-16 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Gil Thanks for your comments. To prepare the documents I used feedback from Budapest and also this discussion on the mailing list. http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Moving-commonext-from-applycations-to-specialpurpose-tp4658819.html

Re: Documentation tools documentation

2015-01-08 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Jacques I think that if we already have an internal dedicated tool that we can use for diagrams etc then it would be good to use it. The issue that we had (and still have) is that some of the diagrams were made using software that we dont have access to anymore so cant update them. We didnt

Reminder: OFBiz Community Day - 21st March 2015

2015-03-11 Thread Sharan-F
(NOTE: This is a cross post from the User Mailing List because I want to reach as many people as possible) Hi Everyone I'm sending out another reminder for the OFBiz Community Day event that is planned for Saturday 21st March. Details about the what a Community Day is and how you can

Reminder: Community Day Survey

2015-03-25 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All I'm cross posting this message to try and get a bit more coverage as we've only had 10 responses so far. If you participated in the Community Day last weekend then please take a few moments to complete our survey. (*NOTE*: If you didn't participate then please don't do the survey) This

OFBiz Logo with Open For Business Project Text Removed

2015-03-25 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All A quick note to let you know that I've updated the project website to use a modified logo (Thanks very much to Mandeep Sidhu for the graphic work!). I think the image needs to be transparent so that it will display well over any background so if anyone can me help out with converting the

Jira Agile Dashboard and Sprint Details

2015-02-23 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All Over the weekend I setup a sprint in Jira to coincide with the Hot Wax Bug Crush event and assigned all our current backlog to that sprint. (I didnt realise but this caused Jira to send out a message for every assignment – so sorry for flooding people's email!) I was interested in how

Re: Jira Spam

2015-02-21 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Scott Guilty and very guilty! It's me that's generating this. I've been using the Jira Agile Dashboard to setup a Sprint for the Hotwax Bug Crush today. I added our complete backlog to the sprint (and that has caused Jira to generate all the messages). I'm not going to touch anything else

Re: New OFBiz Bug Crush Event tomorrow, trivia

2015-02-20 Thread Sharan-F
Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to be a bit cheeky and take this as an opportunity to do some tests with Jira and the Agile Dashboard and Sprint functionality. I've created a new sprint called 'Bug Crush Event - 21/2/2015' and will add all our backlog to it. Any issues the HWM team (or anyone

Re: discussion: Move to Maven was:Re: svn commit: r1674216 - in /ofbiz/trunk: framework/start/pom.xml pom.xml

2015-04-21 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All A reminder that this is a public list and while I understand that there is a lot of heated discussions happening here - the use of swearwords or bad language is not acceptable. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context:

Re: Interesting resources about the code of conduct in our open source community

2015-04-22 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Jacopo Thanks for sharing these links. I watched the video and thought it was very good. It highlights a lot of the issues facing open source projects and gives some positive advice for resolving them. One of the key points she raises is that everything we say on mailing lists is public and

Photo or Avatar for Committers and PMC Members List

2015-04-30 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All I've added a column to the Committer and PMC members list for people to add a photo or avatar if they would like to. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Apache+OFBiz+PMC+%28Project+Management+Committee%29+Members+and+Committers

Re: Addons for OFBiz

2015-05-07 Thread Sharan-F
Hi I also think it's great that this topic has been raised (so thanks Julien). I would be really keen to participate in any effort that could simplify and improve the user experience for OFBiz. Our demo is there to show people what OFBiz can do but if it doesn't look very nice or easy to use

Follow Us on Twitter

2015-04-15 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone (This is a cross post from the user mailing list) Exciting news - we now have a twitter account that we can use to communicate news and information about the project plus any related topics. Our account name is https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz – so please follow us. Thanks Sharan

Re: Possible Documentation and help solutions - DITA

2015-06-05 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher Thanks for the response. I think that working through your action list would be a really good move so am happy to work on it. I think we'll need to take this discussion off the mailing list as it is because we will need to share files (such as the ones that dont work etc) so I will

Re: Possible Documentation and help solutions - DITA

2015-06-03 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher I've just had a go with the validating the HR Guide file. When I ran the validation the only message I got was that it stripped the namespace before processing. The output file was fine (I didnt include the path to the images so they are coming out as blank frames) but everything else

Re: Possible Documentation and help solutions - DITA

2015-06-04 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher It would be good to understand what exactly is missing from our Docbook implementation. It might be that we have set the tags at a specific level (e.g section etc) which means that we cant use chapters etc. I'm still thinking but the main thing that concerns me is this. There is a

Moving Jira Users to the Jira Contributors Group

2015-06-22 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone One issue that came up in the Community Day last Saturday was related to Jira profile permissions. A while ago Pierre trialled the use of the 'Contributor' group permission within Jira. This group has additional permissions to assign themselves to an issue (e.g. while they are

Picking up Jira Issues Assigned to Someone Else

2015-06-22 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone Another topic that came up on the Community Day was whether a developer could pick up a Jira issue already assigned to someone else. At the moment I don't think we have any indication to show whether the original assignee wants to keep the issue (e.g. they are already part way

Re: Moving Jira Users to the Jira Contributors Group

2015-06-26 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone Thanks for your feedback. The general feeling is that we do go ahead with this. As a next step, I will go through the list of people on our list of contributors on the wiki (see link below) looking for people with an ICLA in place.

Move Application Entity Definitions to A Separate Component

2015-06-11 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All I'd like to get some feedback on the a proposal Jacopo made a while ago to find out if we have enough consenus to include it in our upcoming Community Day. */Some time ago I proposed to move all entity definitions from the applications components into a separate one; this component could

Re: Need OFBiz Expert (Installation Issue)

2015-08-09 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Hopefully someone from the community will respond to you either via this mailing list or privately. If you still haven't had any responses by the end of the week then please post a reminder message. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context:

[FRAMEWORK] Notes from Skype Meeting - 23rd Oct 2015

2015-10-24 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone Yesterday we held a Skype call (Adrian, Ron, Taher and Myself) to talk about the proposed Framework re-write. Please see below the main points from the meeting: *Meeting Discussions* We started by talking about our expectations. We then briefly discussed what a framework is as there

Re: [QUESTION about OFBIZ-6618] growerptest Selenium component out or in OFBiz?

2015-10-23 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Hans The component with its own menu system sounds interesting. Remember at Apachecon we talked about the possibility of setting up an OFBiz Business Demo as an OFBiz component to showcase a a little of what OFBiz can do. This could be a good use for such functionality. Thanks Sharan --

Re: [FRAMEWORK] Notes from Skype Meeting - 23rd Oct 2015

2015-10-31 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone Thanks for all the feedback, comments and ideas we’ve had so far. Based on that I think that we need to tighten up the scope so that we don’t try to do everything at once. Thank you, Adrian for doing the diagram. I think this is a good way to see the big picture.

Re: Why A Framework Rewrite Is Necessary

2015-10-19 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All I went away for the weekend and came back to mega thread of responses here – which is great. And I can see that some really good ideas have come out as feedback already. I think the next step is to see if we can get things moving. I’d like to try and pull together anyone interested in

Re: Why A Framework Rewrite Is Necessary

2015-10-19 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone I've moved Adrian's Framework Vision page into the wiki https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Another+Framework+Vision and I've also created a page where people who are interested in helping

Re: Why A Framework Rewrite Is Necessary

2015-10-14 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Adrian Thanks for bringing the framework topic up again as I've seen quite a few disucussions about it but nothing has gained enough momentum to do anything about it. At Apachecon it was one of the main subjects that I wanted to raise because it sounded like an " elephant in the room " topic

OFBiz - Apache Extras and OFBiz Extras

2015-07-10 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All *Apache Extras* There is some current planning in progress by the ASF to move all the code in Apache Extras from Google onto SourceForge. OFBiz has the following code in Apache Extras https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/hosting/search?q=label%3aOFBiz I think they also expect to

What is the OFBiz Framework Strategy?

2015-09-02 Thread Sharan-F
Moqui be swapped into OFBiz as a framework if this is done right? That is, can the layers be properly defined to allow different components to be used in each of the components. Is there sufficient value in this? Ron On 01/09/2015 4:02 AM, Sharan-F wrote: > Hi All > > A while ago I put this

Re: Welcome to our new committers Gil Portenseigne and Wei Zhang!

2015-10-06 Thread Sharan-F
That's great news! Congratulations Gil and Wei Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Welcome-to-our-new-committers-Gil-Portenseigne-and-Wei-Zhang-tp4673082p4673091.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Creating the 15.12 release branch

2015-12-30 Thread Sharan-F
+1 It would be nice to do just so we don't miss a year. For the 2016 releases it might be good to set a target month to work towards. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Creating-the-15-12-release-branch-tp4675548p4675577.html Sent from the

Re: FOSDEM 2016 - take action by 4th of December 2015

2015-11-30 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All Just to let you know that I've volunteered to help out on the Apache booth at FOSDEM so will be there. I think that Pierre, Heidi and Eric have mentioned that they are planning to come too (so we can have a mini meetup). I'm planning to bring a laptop and have a demo version of OFBiz

Re: My experience with refactoring the framework

2016-06-06 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher Thanks for sharing your experience as I think it contains some real insights and also re-confirms an important task – we need to tidy up our code. And the one crucial message I hear loud and clear in your email is that we need everyone to help out too. (BTW I've seen the amount of work

Re: [DISCUSSION] Setting Up Mentoring

2016-06-08 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All A quick update - I've sent out the Hipchat invitations and see people have already responded and are in the Hipchat room. As mentioned please take a look around. We have the OFBiz room, and also private chat. I think it also works on a range of devices too. Thanks Sharan -- View

[DISCUSSION] Setting Up Mentoring

2016-06-08 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone I've created a page on the wiki to try and organise the mentoring. We have a list of people who volunteered to be mentors, so if you want to be a mentor, then please feel free to add your name ot this list. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Mentors I'm very

[DISCUSSION] Mentoring to Share Knowledge and Improve Code

2016-06-06 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All One of the things that came up in the Committers Survey was related to mentoring. I asked the question whether it would be a good idea if newer Committers were mentored by a more experienced one and 63% of the Committers surveyed agreed it would be. I think that this could be something

Re: Taher Alkhateeb joins the OFBiz PMC

2016-06-10 Thread Sharan-F
Excellent news! Congratulations and welcome Taher. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Taher-Alkhateeb-joins-the-OFBiz-PMC-tp4683173p4683209.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Framework & Code Re-Factoring: Maintaining Quality

2016-05-26 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher Thanks for sharing and I know it's coming from going through some tough code interpreting experiences. Have these ideas been captured in our best coding practises? Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context:

Re: Custom ClassLoader in OFBiz

2016-05-30 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher The main thing that jumped out at me is that if OSGi is something that can fix “many” of our existing problems and can make a real difference to simplify how we can deploy things – then I think it would be good to to at least look at how it could fit. It sounds like we have a

Re: OFBiz Committers Survey

2016-05-26 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone Our first ever Committers Survey is now closed. Thank you very much to everyone who participated. I've created a page on the wiki where I will summarise the results. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/May+2016+-+Committers+Survey I'll be working on it over the next

Re: proposal to remove cobertura and sonar from ofbiz

2016-05-27 Thread Sharan-F
+1 to go ahead too. If we have had these issues hanging around for years without being resolved then I think a clean start sounds the best. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context:

OFBiz Committers Survey - Results

2016-06-01 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone First of all, a big thank you to everyone who participated in the Committers Survey. I thought it was important to get some feedback from you that could possibly give the community some ideas about what you see as important and also maybe bring up some potential discussion topics.

Release 14.12.01 and Dedication for Adrian

2016-02-04 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone Looking at our tentative release schedule we have said that this month we would look at releasing 14.12.01. It has been maturing for over a year so are we ready to begin preparing for its release this month ? Also we talked about dedicating a release to Adrian so I think we could use

Re: Framework Cleanup Options - Tidy Up & Refactor?

2016-02-04 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All Thanks for the feedback so far. It sounds like we need to have a clear vision of what needs to be done and also organise things so it's easy for people to know what they can work on. I'll see if I can summarise the main points onto a wiki page. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in

Framework Cleanup Options - Tidy Up & Refactor?

2016-02-03 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone A few months ago we started looking at a proposed framework re-write sub project with Adrian as our mentor. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Potential+Framework+Project+for+the+Foundation+Sub+Component With Adrian gone it makes it hard for us to continue so have

Re: ContactMechs

2016-01-26 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Julien I think the ContactMech name is historic and is probably a bit of OFBiz jargon :-) It could be translated as 'Contact Details' or 'Contact Information'. If we are already using 'Contact Information' as a description somewhere then I think it makes sense to standardise it to be the same

Draft Minutes from Skype Framework Re-Factor Call: 15th March 2016

2016-03-16 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone A huge thank you goes out to everyone who participated in the Framework Re-Factor Skype Group call yesterday. It was a very dynamic and active call and I hope it helped to get us focussed on our general approach and our next steps. There were a lot of good ideas and suggestions that

Re: Proposal for the "Tweets" and "News" sections of the main web page of the OFBiz site

2016-03-09 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Jacopo +1 Yes it's a good idea. Our News section is a bit outdated now so keeping everything current is good. (BTW we have around 250 twitter followers now). Also I do have a work in progress regarding a re-design of the website that I'm working on and will share what I've done so far with

Re: Current Re-Factor To Do List

2016-03-31 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All A quick update on this. First of all thanks to Michael for picking up and providing patches for the first two tasks on the list. We also talked about using a Jira Sprint to manage to work so I've created a new sprint called 'Re-Factor Sprint 1'. It will run for 2 weeks and once finished

Framework & Code Re-Factoring: Maintaining Quality

2016-04-08 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone It's great to see the progress happening on the framework and code re-factoring. Tasks from our to do list are being picked up and worked on, so thank you to everyone involved in this. As this is a code clean-up, I'd really like to emphasize that we need to be extra careful because

Jira Contributors Group and How to Get Added to it

2016-04-11 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone This is a quick reminder to mention that we have put in place a process where contributors can assign themselves to a Jira issue while they are working on it. (e.g while preparing a patch or testing etc). This helps to give visibility and also helps stop duplicated effort. To be

RE: Draft Minutes from Skype Framework Re-Factor Call: 15th March 2016

2016-03-20 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher Thanks for the feedback.I've updated the minutes with this detail. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Draft-Minutes-from-Skype-Framework-Re-Factor-Call-15th-March-2016-tp4677836p4677839.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive

Re: Draft Minutes from Skype Framework Re-Factor Call: 15th March 2016

2016-03-20 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Ron Yes, this was talked about and these are great suggestions. I think it might be good to have this written down somewhere on the re-factoring wiki pages as recommendations that would help. Also in general - it is also something that we could put into our developers best practice area so

Re: Welcome to our new committer Gregory Draperi

2016-03-08 Thread Sharan-F
Congratulations and welcome Gregory! Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Welcome-to-our-new-committer-Gregory-Draperi-tp4677645p4677647.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Skype Group Call Next Week re-Framework Re-Factoring

2016-03-08 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All Based on the interest so far we have to account for 4 different time zones (Europe, Kuwait, Mumbai and Montreal). We could do any day next week at one of the following times : - Montreal (0800), Europe (1300), Kuwait (1500), Mumbai (1730) - Montreal (0900) Europe (1400), Kuwait

Re: Skype Group Call Next Week re-Framework Re-Factoring

2016-03-08 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All Another update. We have setup the skype group and have decided on Tuesday 15th March at: -*Montreal (0900) Europe (1400), Kuwait (1600), Mumbai (1830) * Taher has put together a draft agenda for the call as follows: 1- introduction and purpose of refactoring project 2-

Skype Group Call Next Week re-Framework Re-Factoring

2016-03-04 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone We'd like to organise an initial Skype group call next week with all the people interested in helping out with the Framework Re-factor. The main aim is to ensure that people understand what needs to be done and where they can start. The plan is that by the end of the call, you should

Re: Framework Re-Factor: List of Areas that Need Work

2016-03-04 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Kulwant Thanks for your offer of help. I've had a quick chat with Taher and we think that it would be a good idea to setup a group call (e.g. via Skype) and invite everyone that has expressed an interest in helping out. The main aim is to get people together and talk through briefly where

Re: Skype Group Call Next Week re-Framework Re-Factoring

2016-03-06 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher Based on your availability this week, that leaves us with tomorrow (Monday). I'm on CET which is GMT+1 so I'll see if I can schedule a time that will suit you, me and Kulwant. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context:

Re: Skype Group Call Next Week re-Framework Re-Factoring

2016-03-06 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher / Kulwant How about tomorrow (Monday 7th March) at 13.00 my time (which will be 15.00 for Taher and 17.30 for Kulwant) ? Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Skype-Group-Call-Next-Week-re-Framework-Re-Factoring-tp4677595p4677608.html

Re: Skype Group Call Next Week re-Framework Re-Factoring

2016-03-07 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All Ok - I'll definitely move it to sometime next week. I'll also start setting up the skype group. Anyone that would like to be included, please send me your skype name via email to sha...@apache.org (Taher, Julien I already have yours so will add you both in). Thanks Sharan --

Re: Skype Group Call Next Week re-Framework Re-Factoring

2016-03-06 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Taher I didnt realise Ron was interested. If that's the case then that makes it difficult for us to have our call today as it will only be 7am his time. I think then it's better to postpone the call until next week to make sure that we have the availability of everyone who is interested in a

Framework Re-Factor: List of Areas that Need Work

2016-03-01 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All A few weeks ago we talked about getting things moving on some framework re-factoring. http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Framework-Cleanup-Options-Tidy-Up-amp-Refactor-tt4676797.html#a4676841 One of the things I thought would be useful is to have a list of areas that people could work

Re: [VOTE] [RELEASE] Apache OFBiz 13.07.03

2016-03-30 Thread Sharan-F
+1 Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/VOTE-RELEASE-Apache-OFBiz-13-07-03-tp4678515p4678619.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Current Re-Factor To Do List

2016-03-30 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All I've noticed that some general refactoring work has already ready started which is great. One of the action points from our Skype call on re-factoring was to put together a list of tasks that people can use to identify the work that needs to be done (especially if they are not sure where

Temporary Adjustment to OFBiz Jira Permissions

2016-04-22 Thread Sharan-F
Hi I'm re-posting as it looks like my original message didnt get through to the mailing lists. -- Hi Everyone I'm posting this to both user and dev mailing lists. The ASF had a big spam attack on Jira yesterday so have

Re: OFBiz Committers Survey

2016-05-19 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone I've sent out the survey today so all our committers (including emeritus and inactive) should get an email with a link to it. I'll plan to keep the survey open for 7 days (less if I get all the responses back beforehand!) to give people enough time to complete it. Thanks in advance

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