Main New Features In The OFBiz Trunk

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi,

When we decide to create this page in the wiki it was decided that only Main New Fearture will get in. Also it was more destined to
end users than devs
When I look at recent adds, for instance
  a.. Accounting
    a.. Converted simple events in FixedAssetMaintEvents.xml to services.
I don't think it's the case. Please keep in mind that only information from a higher level, business level, should go into this page
(this is also true for me, I put some to technicals information about the POS there, it's not the purpose of this document)

Thanks

Jacques

[Adrian Crum-2]

If we wanted to list the things like you mentioned, we could create a page like Si Chen used to have - which was a summary of the commit log.

-Adrian

--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]> wrote:

> From: Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Main New Features In The OFBiz Trunk
> To: [hidden email]
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 4:53 AM
> Hi,
>
> When we decide to create this page in the wiki it was
> decided that only Main New Fearture will get in. Also it was
> more destined to end users than devs
> When I look at recent adds, for instance
>  a.. Accounting
>    a.. Converted simple events in
> FixedAssetMaintEvents.xml to services.
> I don't think it's the case. Please keep in mind that only
> information from a higher level, business level, should go
> into this page (this is also true for me, I put some to
> technicals information about the POS there, it's not the
> purpose of this document)
>
> Thanks
>
> Jacques
>
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Do we really need that? I think those interested by this kind of information can follow the commits.
I'm pretty sure a such page will not be maintained seriously in the mid term.
We have already some difficulties to maintain the Main New Fearture which, I repeat, sould be only a summarize at the business
level.

Jacques

From: "Adrian Crum" <[hidden email]>

> If we wanted to list the things like you mentioned, we could create a page like Si Chen used to have - which was a summary of the
> commit log.
>
> -Adrian
>
> --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> From: Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: Main New Features In The OFBiz Trunk
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 4:53 AM
>> Hi,
>>
>> When we decide to create this page in the wiki it was
>> decided that only Main New Fearture will get in. Also it was
>> more destined to end users than devs
>> When I look at recent adds, for instance
>>  a.. Accounting
>> a.. Converted simple events in
>> FixedAssetMaintEvents.xml to services.
>> I don't think it's the case. Please keep in mind that only
>> information from a higher level, business level, should go
>> into this page (this is also true for me, I put some to
>> technicals information about the POS there, it's not the
>> purpose of this document)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

A user friendly digest of relevant new features was indeed the original goal of that page.
If we want a very granular list of changes I would suggest to start from the output of "svn log" and then decorate it to be more readable: it could be an interesting page for sure (we could run it every week/month).

Since it seems that the committers are having an hard time keeping the page updated (I am one of the guys who is not keeping it up to date so blame on me!), are there (non committers) volunteers that would like to lead the effort?

The task can be summarized in this way:

1) keep an eye on the commits (and discussions on the dev mailing lists) and prepare a digest of the main new features
2) if there are doubts about commit, feel free to ask for more information to the committer
3) take care of completing the summary of the month within the first 10 days of the next month

This task is also a great way, imo, for becoming a new committer because it really helps to learn a lot about the project.

Kind regards,

Jacopo

On Feb 27, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> Do we really need that? I think those interested by this kind of information can follow the commits.
> I'm pretty sure a such page will not be maintained seriously in the mid term.
> We have already some difficulties to maintain the Main New Fearture which, I repeat, sould be only a summarize at the business level.
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Adrian Crum" <[hidden email]>
>> If we wanted to list the things like you mentioned, we could create a page like Si Chen used to have - which was a summary of the commit log.
>>
>> -Adrian
>>
>> --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]>
>>> Subject: Main New Features In The OFBiz Trunk
>>> To: [hidden email]
>>> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 4:53 AM
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When we decide to create this page in the wiki it was
>>> decided that only Main New Fearture will get in. Also it was
>>> more destined to end users than devs
>>> When I look at recent adds, for instance
>>> a.. Accounting
>>> a.. Converted simple events in
>>> FixedAssetMaintEvents.xml to services.
>>> I don't think it's the case. Please keep in mind that only
>>> information from a higher level, business level, should go
>>> into this page (this is also true for me, I put some to
>>> technicals information about the POS there, it's not the
>>> purpose of this document)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Jacques
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

No volunteers?

Jacopo

On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> A user friendly digest of relevant new features was indeed the original goal of that page.
> If we want a very granular list of changes I would suggest to start from the output of "svn log" and then decorate it to be more readable: it could be an interesting page for sure (we could run it every week/month).
>
> Since it seems that the committers are having an hard time keeping the page updated (I am one of the guys who is not keeping it up to date so blame on me!), are there (non committers) volunteers that would like to lead the effort?
>
> The task can be summarized in this way:
>
> 1) keep an eye on the commits (and discussions on the dev mailing lists) and prepare a digest of the main new features
> 2) if there are doubts about commit, feel free to ask for more information to the committer
> 3) take care of completing the summary of the month within the first 10 days of the next month
>
> This task is also a great way, imo, for becoming a new committer because it really helps to learn a lot about the project.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jacopo
>
> On Feb 27, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>
>> Do we really need that? I think those interested by this kind of information can follow the commits.
>> I'm pretty sure a such page will not be maintained seriously in the mid term.
>> We have already some difficulties to maintain the Main New Fearture which, I repeat, sould be only a summarize at the business level.
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>> From: "Adrian Crum" <[hidden email]>
>>> If we wanted to list the things like you mentioned, we could create a page like Si Chen used to have - which was a summary of the commit log.
>>>
>>> -Adrian
>>>
>>> --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]>
>>>> Subject: Main New Features In The OFBiz Trunk
>>>> To: [hidden email]
>>>> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 4:53 AM
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When we decide to create this page in the wiki it was
>>>> decided that only Main New Fearture will get in. Also it was
>>>> more destined to end users than devs
>>>> When I look at recent adds, for instance
>>>> a.. Accounting
>>>> a.. Converted simple events in
>>>> FixedAssetMaintEvents.xml to services.
>>>> I don't think it's the case. Please keep in mind that only
>>>> information from a higher level, business level, should go
>>>> into this page (this is also true for me, I put some to
>>>> technicals information about the POS there, it's not the
>>>> purpose of this document)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Jacques
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

[Bruno Busco]

Jacopo,
could we rather use JIRA for this?
I mean if we open an issue for every task that our commits belong to
(even if they are not coming from a patch) we are all done.
It will be enough to use the Change Log tab page
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel)
to have the report.

Using JIRA in a more "strict" way will get the Release Manager's life
more easy also. In this case the tool is this:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel

Just my 0.2€

-Bruno

2010/3/8 Jacopo Cappellato <[hidden email]>:

> No volunteers?
>
> Jacopo
>
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>
>> A user friendly digest of relevant new features was indeed the original goal of that page.
>> If we want a very granular list of changes I would suggest to start from the output of "svn log" and then decorate it to be more readable: it could be an interesting page for sure (we could run it every week/month).
>>
>> Since it seems that the committers are having an hard time keeping the page updated (I am one of the guys who is not keeping it up to date so blame on me!), are there (non committers) volunteers that would like to lead the effort?
>>
>> The task can be summarized in this way:
>>
>> 1) keep an eye on the commits (and discussions on the dev mailing lists) and prepare a digest of the main new features
>> 2) if there are doubts about commit, feel free to ask for more information to the committer
>> 3) take care of completing the summary of the month within the first 10 days of the next month
>>
>> This task is also a great way, imo, for becoming a new committer because it really helps to learn a lot about the project.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Jacopo
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>
>>> Do we really need that? I think those interested by this kind of information can follow the commits.
>>> I'm pretty sure a such page will not be maintained seriously in the mid term.
>>> We have already some difficulties to maintain the Main New Fearture which, I repeat, sould be only a summarize at the business level.
>>>
>>> Jacques
>>>
>>> From: "Adrian Crum" <[hidden email]>
>>>> If we wanted to list the things like you mentioned, we could create a page like Si Chen used to have - which was a summary of the commit log.
>>>>
>>>> -Adrian
>>>>
>>>> --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> From: Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]>
>>>>> Subject: Main New Features In The OFBiz Trunk
>>>>> To: [hidden email]
>>>>> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 4:53 AM
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> When we decide to create this page in the wiki it was
>>>>> decided that only Main New Fearture will get in. Also it was
>>>>> more destined to end users than devs
>>>>> When I look at recent adds, for instance
>>>>> a.. Accounting
>>>>> a.. Converted simple events in
>>>>> FixedAssetMaintEvents.xml to services.
>>>>> I don't think it's the case. Please keep in mind that only
>>>>> information from a higher level, business level, should go
>>>>> into this page (this is also true for me, I put some to
>>>>> technicals information about the POS there, it's not the
>>>>> purpose of this document)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Jacques
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

[Adam Heath-2]

Bruno Busco wrote:

> Jacopo,
> could we rather use JIRA for this?
> I mean if we open an issue for every task that our commits belong to
> (even if they are not coming from a patch) we are all done.
> It will be enough to use the Change Log tab page
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel)
> to have the report.
>
> Using JIRA in a more "strict" way will get the Release Manager's life
> more easy also. In this case the tool is this:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel
>
> Just my 0.2€

Well, obviously, one of the main new features is tomahawk.

[Bruno Busco]

Sure! ;-)

Please try this link:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12313602&styleName=Html&projectId=12310500&Create=Create

here an HTML report can also be cut and pasted wherever we need.

-Bruno

2010/3/8 Adam Heath <[hidden email]>

> Bruno Busco wrote:
> > Jacopo,
> > could we rather use JIRA for this?
> > I mean if we open an issue for every task that our commits belong to
> > (even if they are not coming from a patch) we are all done.
> > It will be enough to use the Change Log tab page
> > (
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel
> )
> > to have the report.
> >
> > Using JIRA in a more "strict" way will get the Release Manager's life
> > more easy also. In this case the tool is this:
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel
> >
> > Just my 0.2€
>
> Well, obviously, one of the main new features is tomahawk.
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Adam,

Would you mind to add a line at http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features, in February for instance?

TIA

Jacques

From: "Adam Heath" <[hidden email]>

> Bruno Busco wrote:
>> Jacopo,
>> could we rather use JIRA for this?
>> I mean if we open an issue for every task that our commits belong to
>> (even if they are not coming from a patch) we are all done.
>> It will be enough to use the Change Log tab page
>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel)
>> to have the report.
>>
>> Using JIRA in a more "strict" way will get the Release Manager's life
>> more easy also. In this case the tool is this:
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel
>>
>> Just my 0.2€
>
> Well, obviously, one of the main new features is tomahawk.
>

[Adam Heath-2]

Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> Adam,
>
> Would you mind to add a line at
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features, in
> February for instance?

done.