Re: [DISCUSSION] Defining an OFBiz Project Strategy

[Sharan Foga <sh...@apache.org>]

Hi Everyone

Thanks very much for all the feedback on this thread. 

It's time to summarise and make a working document out of what we have discussed. (I know some people are already busy on various POCs but we need to really link everything we are doing back in to the overall project strategy and direction).

I'm going to create a new wiki page for this project strategy. It will be a brief high level document, pulling in the main areas mentioned. I don't want it to become too detailed, I think it should just be like an overview where anyone can quickly read it and understand the project direction and focus.

Under each main area \u2013 I am going to limit it to a maximum 2 (maybe 3:-) milestones / goals / workareas. (so please make sure you think about the high level goal of what we want to achieve)

Once the page is done, we can do another consensus check to make sure we have community agreement on it.

Thanks
Sharan
On 2016-11-28 11:08 (+0100), "Sharan Foga"<sh...@apache.org> wrote: 
> Hi Everyone
> 
> One of the topics that came up during the brainstorming in Seville was that the project desperately needs a clear strategy and roadmap. 
> 
> Benefits:
> - A strategy will provide a clear path for people to follow
> - A strategy will allow us to set goals / milestones and metrics about progress
> 
> In past maybe we have tried to do too much (tried to do it all at once - which is why we find it h ard to focus).
> 
> - One suggestion was to set a maximum of 3 goals and then work only on these. To define these goals we need to look at what is the most important thing that we want to achieve - and base them on that.
> - Another suggestion was that the most important thing for the project is driving adoption. If this is true then what are the key blockers that stop user adoption of OFBiz? (the UI!) 
> - Suggestion to organise / setup teams from the community that focus on specific areas (e.g. workgroups) - this could really help progress
> 
> So to get the discussion started: 
> 
> 1. Do people agree that the project needs to focus on driving adoption?
> 2. Do people think that the UI is one of the key things that stops this ? (If, not then please include what do you think is)
> 3. What goals could we set?
> 4. Are people interested in working in workgroups, to focus on specific areas (or goals)?
> 
> (I know there are some ideas/work around the UI going on, but I will post the Seville details and notes about that in separate discussion thread.)
> 
> Thanks
> Sharan
> 
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