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- The objective of this question was to find out what each Committer thought was the most important out of the selections
- 6 responses were allowed (one for each ranking)
- The question was a ranking one, where the most important was ranked as '1' and the least at '6'.
- Weighting Calculation = Total Weighting / Total
- A weight of 6 was put on anything ranked 1
- A weight of 5 was put on anything ranked 2
- A weight of 4 was put on anything ranked 3
- A weight of 3 was put on anything ranked 4
- A weight of 2 was put on anything ranked 5
- A weight of 1 was put on anything ranked 6
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| IMPORTANT NOTE: Jacques highlighted on the mailing list that an important answer choice was missing - that of the project historic 'technical debt' that needs to be addressed. |
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| . This is the list of JIRA issues that have been created over the years that need to be reviewed, applied or closed. We focus a lot on the newer JIRA isues but old issues (especially patches) date quickly so if not applied become more and more difficult to integrate. |
Conclusions:
- Although Improving quality by tidying up the existing codebase was ranked first the most, it shared first position with Better documentation because of the averaging calculation. Better documentation was ranked second the most.
- It's interesting to see that having a more structured workplan is in second position because in a question 7 Committers responded that having a define workplan would not make them more active. The response here seems to indicate that the visibility wanted may not be individual but at a project level so that people have a clearer view of what is happening and how it is all linked together.
- Keeping up to date with trends and technology is in third position. This seems to indicate that as the project progresses, the respondents think that we need to be aware of what is happening technologically and incorporate what we can to keep OFBiz up to date.
- Separating the framework into a distinct product is in fourth position. The community has previously discussed this option and it's interesting to see that some respondents think that it could be a good improvement for the project. With the current effort in re-factoring the framework, this idea could become more and more popular.
- Having more committers ranked the lowest. This seems to indicate that respondents thought that put
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