While I agree that improving the content in the wiki is important and should be a theme of upcoming OFBiz Community Days, collaborating to get as much patches (currently more than 300 tickets listed, see [1]) as possible reviewed and/or implemented into the code base is equally important.
Not only does it shorten the list of open tickets (currently more than 1500), but it also sends a strong signal to (adopters) and contributors: that the community works as fast as possible to get the (valuable) contributions of members implemented. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20OFBIZ%20AND%20status%20%3D%20%22Patch%20Available%22%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20updated%20DESC Met vriendelijke groet, Pierre Smits *Proud* *contributor** of* Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org/> since 2008 (without privileges) *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:20 AM Jacques Le Roux < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Devanshu, > > After our move to Git we have finally cleaned our site from information > referring to Svn, and that's good. > > But there is still much such info in the wiki and it can be confusing. > > I suggest that we concentrate much of our efforts during this Community > Day to clean the wiki. > > We can adapt to Git and keep in wiki when needed, or move in Attic under a > specific "Subversion" page when really too deprecated. > > I know, for most of us, it's not as easy as coding with Git and GitHub. > But Confluence now also easily allows to share tasks and merge when needed. > > We should not hesitate to prune much, nothing worse than obsolete and > confusing documentation > > I hope everyone will help, it's really long due :) > > Thanks > > Jacques > > > Le 11/05/2020 à 06:40, Devanshu Vyas a écrit : > > Hello all, > > > > We are back with OFBiz Community Days, hope you are excited too! :-) > > The community days are organized once per quarter so a total of four (4) > > events throughout the year. > > > > We are having a sequence of 5 days that form the Community Days. This > > extends the time frame and gives people more flexibility to contribute. > > So, this month our Community Days will be from *22nd – 26th May 2020*. > > > > If you are new to the concept of Community Days then please take a look > at > > the following wiki pages: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Community+Days > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Community+Days+Dates > > > > This is such an event where anyone can participate (and we would like to > > encourage as many people as possible to do so) > > > > If there is an OFBiz task or particular area that you would like to work > on > > then please see if you can set aside some time over the next few days to > do > > it. (Even an hour will help!) > > > > Remember that you do not have to work on it alone, our Community Days are > > also a chance to collaborate with others in the community. > > > > Our Community Days are not only coding related, but we would also like to > > do some tidy up of our wiki and our project documentation. > > > > *Testing, Review and Committing Patches* > > Testing and applying patches is always an important area. Many > contributors > > from the community have provided patches for bugs and improvements but > > before committing them we need to test to them. > > > > Patches can become out of date very quickly meaning that if they are not > > tested early enough then they can miss out on being included. We have a > > large number of patches available so this could be a good opportunity for > > test, review and commit. > > > > *Documentation* > > We know that our current documentation could be a whole lot better so any > > contribution that helps us improve it is welcome. > > > > *Jira Sprint* > > I will create a Jira sprint "OFBiz Community Day (May 2020)" so please > add > > any Jira tasks when you are working on it. > > This Jira Sprint helps us track and report on the work done during the > > Community Days so please try to make sure your work is included. > > To set the sprint on an existing issue, simply click on the "Edit" option > > on the issue and select the sprint field. > > > > We should add the Sprint in all the cases: > > 1.) If we create a ticket we should add it. > > 2.) If we start working on an existing ticket (adding patch or closing it > > after a commit) we should add sprint if it is missing. > > > > Basically adding Sprint will make sure the contribution will be counted > in > > OFBiz community days event, which is from 22nd – 26th May. > > At the end of May's OFBiz Community day i.e. after 26th May, this will > help > > us in reporting. > > > > *OFBiz Slack Channel* > > If you haven't already taken a look, our OFBiz Slack channel is available > > all the time but can be especially useful when collaborating during our > > Community Days event. Please join our room using the link below: > > https://s.apache.org/ofbiz-slack-channel > > > > To chat with users and developers of Apache OFBiz. Please create a Slack > > account using this invite link <https://s.apache.org/slack-invite> and > join > > the *#ofbiz channel*. <https://s.apache.org/ofbiz-slack-channel> Please > do > > *not* ask OFBiz questions/discussion in the #general channel. > > > > Let's all collaborate to improve OFBiz, have fun and enjoy working > together. > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Devanshu Vyas. > >
