Meeting Minutes

Participants: Taher Alkhateeb, Ron Wheeler, Gil Portenseigne, Nicolas Malin, Kulwant Singh, Deepak Dixit, Sharan Foga, Jacopo Cappellato, Jacques Le Roux 

We started the call with basic introductions and then a discussion of the agenda.

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Taher began by talking about

• previous project initiatives that haven't progressed because they were seen by the community as too hard to do

• the fact that the community would also like to improve OFBiz and innovate, but before we can innovate, we need to tidy up and clean up the code

• that a framework re-factor will hard but essential to the future of OFBiz

As a framework re-factor will be a lot of work

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The general feedback to these points were that everyone agreed that the re-factoring would be a good thing and that it would bring benefits to the project.

Straightforward vs Complex Re-factoring

Taher mentioned that he saw two main types of re-factoring

1. Clean Re-factor (Straightforward)

This is fairly small and doesn’t change the signature. Examples include

• • • tidying up code

    • cleaning or standardising variable names

    • formatting

    • cleaning up XML files

2. Design Re-Factor (Complex)

This is a re-factor that impacts the design and incorporates changes to the current design.

This could range from a small to a large re-factor of code.

A design re-factor is something significant so it would be good to share any proposal with the community for feedback and comments. Jira could be used and if there is a lot of concern regarding the change a branch could be created to verify the change before it is merged back