Re: OFBiz 4.x/5.0

Posted by Andrew Sykes on Sep 14, 2006; 12:17pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Incubator-September-Report-tp171490p171506.html

Chris,

Does a "roadmap" focus development, or discourage those who want to
contribute something different?

Can a roadmap really be adhered to given the motivations/funding
strategies of most of the committers?

If it was very generalised it may work, but on the other hand, very
general ideas can be expressed via the mailing list.

Also, is an ambitious (probably unachievable) roadmap better for morale
and market perception than an unambitious (easily achievable) one? How
do you gauge what is "ambitious" for an opensource project?

Ok, so an email full of questions, I think it would be fascinating to
know some experiences with this type of thing!

- Andrew


On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 02:35 -0700, 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)

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