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Re: [Dolibarr-dev] Doliarr 5.0.3, 4.0.6 and 6.0

From: Sasa Ostrouska
Subject: Re: [Dolibarr-dev] Doliarr 5.0.3, 4.0.6 and 6.0
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:51:24 +0000
Hi Eldy,

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Laurent Destailleur (aka Eldy) <address@hidden> wrote:
This is very difficult.
If we publish a roadmap for future dev, it means someone else is engaged to make it at the stated date. But on Dolibarr project, there is no salaries, only volunteer.
I would sligtly disagree on this. No matter if is paid or not an organized way of make some job is way better than the non organized one, especially if you want to do that job in more people. But of course if the job is to be done by one sole man than that person also can
organize its work but it have not to communicate it to any one else. This is no matter if you are paid or not to do that job.
Said this, I would really like to see the exact direction the projcet is going, as this will facilitate a lot of things in my opinion.

In my thinking a Roadmap does not necessarily need to be done and finished on certain date. Its like living on the road, immagine,
you start walking without knowing where you want to go or start walking to arrive to a first defined stop. This does not mean you have to
be there on a defined date.

So this means a development roadmap in my point of view would be something like a whish list, we can call it also like this. Where all the involved people would put their wished features and then contribute to it. By doing it in that way for sure will it simplify for new people
on how to contribute and where to start. Some even further benefit would be linking this features with the issues on github for example.

But none of the above force you to finish it on some predefined date, just it sits there until it is finished.
 
And getting a guarantee than a volunteer do a work for a defined date is difficult to get. So only contributions that are received can be included. You can force a developer to work on a feature if you pay for it, but you can't for people that work for free.

I do agree, and it is no sense to force people to do anything they do not want to do. Especially when they do it for free.
 
Announcing a roadmap for feature and then say finally, nobody did it so roadmap is not what we said is worse than providing a roadmap of future features 

I dont understand what you mean with this.


The only thing we can decide in advance is a strategic direction, but not a roadmap of future development not yet done. This may change in the future, the day when developers will be payed to make development. But this way of working is not currently the situation.

Ok strategic direction is then what I call a roadmap. Possibly on a wiki page or place where people can see which features are wished or somebody is working on and where the develop branch is heading. This would be very helpful in my opinion to have people not working on the same thing or joining to contribute on a certain feature being developed.

I also understand that this adds another layer of work, but I think there is plenty of tools out there which could help with this.

Just my thoughts and for sure I am not trying to push the work in some direction or other.

Rgds
Saxa





2017-06-08 15:09 GMT+02:00 Sasa Ostrouska <address@hidden>:
Is there also a roadmap for a development ? I mean, maybe would it be useful to plan in advance what should come into
the next development. How is this done today by the dev comunity ? It is something is traced along the time line somewhere
in irc or other communication channel or is it simply free and decided by anybody who want to contribute.

For example if I want a certain feature I have to do what to make it included in the next development release ?

Dont get me wrong I do not want to change the way you work, just would like to understand it better.

I have not looked on the wiki deeply to see if there is some kind of page what should come in the next release.

Rgds
Saxa


On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Sasa Ostrouska <address@hidden> wrote:


On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Laurent Destailleur (aka Eldy) <address@hidden> wrote:
Take a look at bottom of page  ;-)

However, only major version are recorded.

Ops :) nice.
Rgds
Saxa
 

2017-06-08 12:28 GMT+02:00 Sasa Ostrouska <address@hidden>:


On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Laurent Destailleur (aka Eldy) <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Dolibarr developers.

A maintenance release has been published for branch 5 (v5.0.3) and 4 (v4.0.6).


Also, the beta of Dolibarr version 6 is officialy started.
No new features will be added from PR.

As usual, "started development" can be continued to be finished and stable for final release. Work on not stable modules are also still opened because such modules won't be visible by end users.  Among works already started and that are qualified to continue to push non bug fix PR, we may find:

- work on advanced accountancy (double party) module to finish/make stable changes done during development period,  

- new variant module

- work on look and feel standardization

- code to make online payment process standardized (this include work on module "stripe").

- translation changes

- changes required to allow package generations


Please do not send new feature PR during this beta period, but take time to test and debug the version 6.0 beta (currently into branch develop. Dedicated branch for v6 will be created when version will be more stabilized)

Also, architecture, re-engineering, or best practice code enhancements will be discarded during this period. Instead any help is welcome to fix all opened bug: See https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr/issues

More information on what a "freeze" mean: https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Category:RoadMap


Version 6.0 beta period should be shorter as usual. It has a very good compatibility behavior with external modules, so you can already check your external modules are still working with this version, even if freeze is done in few days only.

The Changelog into develop branch does not contains for the moment list of new features, but you can read it to get information on what was changed and may need attention of external developers or upgraders.


More information on what a "maintenance version" mean: https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Category:RoadMap


Laurent Destailleur, aka Eldy

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Thanks for the information Eldy, I was thinking why not use the wiki to make the ChangeLog , this is a good practice you can see in the Inkscape community. Something like this http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes


Rgds
Saxa

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