Re: Defining and implementing a short-medium term plan for OFBiz

[David E Jones]

-David


On Oct 26, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Scott Gray wrote:

Yes, that was one thing I was going to comment on in response to Jacopo's initial write-up. The granularity on these should probably stay at a high level so the page doesn't get too cluttered and the discussion related to it can center more on objectives related to direction and priority rather than on how to do specific things or resolve little details. Also, after a brainstorming period for a bit we should probably have an off-shoot discussion about picking 3-4 top priorities. That would change frequently, but would help us all establish a more specific short-term direction.

I'm wondering if we're going to carried away with a christmas list of
things people want improved in the project?  I think we need to keep
this list high level for major new features for the project, jira is
still the best place for specific improvements.

Scott

On 27/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Gads, told you I was dumb.  I just had to log in.

Skip

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 2:21 PM
To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
Subject: Re: Defining and implementing a short-medium term plan for
OFBiz


You might need to create an account to post comments, avoids spam.

Scott

On 27/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I know, I'm dumb. I can't figure out how to post on this page. Anyway,

add

me in as someone willing to help with accounting. I would also like to

add

a new topic, enhanced accounts receivable (billing accounts).  I am

working

on that now and will submit it when finished.

Skip

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacopo Cappellato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 3:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; user@ofbiz.apache.org
Subject: Re: Defining and implementing a short-medium term plan for
OFBiz


Yeah,

that sounds a bit scary to me too ;-)
The persons that want to express their interest but cannot help with

to have a vague idea of the amount of time that they would like to
contribute.

to work on it... it would be just a waste of time.


meaning of that line and asking for the approx estimate per week or

description only).
Do you think it is enough?

Jacopo

Scott Gray wrote:

design/development then should add their name to the "People interested" list only. The line "People willing to help" is really for the ones that will actively participate to the development... and it would really help My fear is that we end up with a huge wishlist and zero human resources However I've tried to make less scary that page, trying to explain the month; I've also remove the text from the tasks (it is now in the page

Hi Jacopo

That page looks great, my only concern is that "approx hours per week"

might

scare some people off by making them feel they have to make a commitment

rather than just show interest?

Scott

On 26/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi to all,

I'm interested to contribute to those taks:

Complete the support for VAT (Value-Added-Tax)
Enhance the integration with eBay
Enhance the integration with Google Product

Why don't add also a new task to migrate the screen-widget styles to

the

new styles of ftl screens.

My problem is that I cannot say how much time I can reserve to those

task

and when I can do it.

Sorry, can I update the page http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/JAw in confluence

by

myself or I have not the access ?

Thanks in advance
Marco

As you all know, the long term goal of the OFBiz project is to build a complete, features set rich, universal and configurable "enterprise

automation software" (ERP, CRM, CMMS, MRP etc.).

OFBiz is one of the few applications of this type developed by a
community, rather than one corporation.

Even if the final long term goal is clear and well-defined ("building

a

universal enterprise automation software"), the short and medium term

tasks to accomplish it are not.


is great and amazing.

This is of course a consequence of the nature of the project: it is a community driven project that tends to lead a life of its own and this However it is probably time to try together to canalize the power of

the

OFBiz community in order to reach our final goal more quickly and
efficiently.

In my opinion, the definition of a short/medium term plan
(wishlist/feature plan) could help encourage contributions and
efficiently convey the community resources.


enhance collaboration and communication in the OFBiz community.

Proposed steps (draft):

1) areas of interest: definition of the areas of interest for the

It is not an attempt at top-down management, but rather a means to community: "what do you think the community members have to implement

to

make OFBiz the best enterprise automation software in the World?"; the

tasks should not be huge tasks because they should be doable by
volunteers in the community

2) resources: who is willing to contribute to which task and the
approximate amount of hours per week

3) for the tasks with enough resources and attention: define the

work will be committed more rapidly

details, subtasks (in Jira?), roles, estimated completion dates; at least one committer should probably be part of each task, so that the To give you an idea of a way to implement #1 and #2, I've set up a

draft

of a page with a wishlist that I've recently collected (from
private/public messages):

http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/JAw


during the discussion.
Please, post your comments and ideas here (and as comments to the

of course this is only a first step, the list will change and grow

above

page), I really think this could be a great opportunity for the
community to grow and for new developers to become committers!

Jacopo

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