Re: OFBiz 4.x/5.0

Posted by David E Jones-2 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Incubator-September-Report-tp171490p171499.html


The first step should certainly be on the mailing list, ie deciding  
what this might be and how it might look.

Andrew's comments were very good and hit the point well that OFBiz is  
community driven in a very real way, ie in that it is driven by both  
community needs and community contributions. There is no budget, no  
dedicated hours from any individual or company, or any other resource  
to work on project priorities.

I would love for that to change (especially if I was the beneficiary  
of some of that change... ;) ), but that's the way it is now, and it  
has actually worked out pretty well. It means future things are very  
unpredictable, although the volume has been pretty good over time  
with lots of good stuff coming into the project.

So, right now the "roadmap" is on this page, which has been there for  
quite a while:

http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/comingsoon.html

I'm not at all opposed to an effort to try to create such a thing. Is  
this something you would be interested in doing Chris?

-David


On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:35 AM, Chris Howe wrote:

> That's great nes on the RC1 stuff!   With all of the
> JIRA notifications and a lot of the good ideas that
> are being transfered over to Apache/put to pasture
> because lack of resources and interest, I wonder if
> it's about time to discuss a roadmap of
> features/methodologies/concepts/goals for future
> releases.
>
> Also what medium that discussion should take place in.
> (personally think the mailing list is a bit
> restrictive for the kinds of broader discussions that
> would be taking place, JIRA with subtasks seems more
> appropriate but would like feedback)