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No. Participation is in any of our Community Days is completely optional. You choose whether you participate or not. It is also up to you how much time you spend. Whether you spend an hour or a full day - all pariticipation participation is happily accepted.

When are the Community Days?

We are planning to have one community day each The community days are organized once per quarter so a total of four (4) events throughout the year. We have selected the following days for 2015.

  • Q1 - Saturday March 21 2015
  • Q2 - Saturday June 20 2015 
  • Q3 - Saturday September 19 2015 
  • Q4 - Saturday December 19 2015

 

Please refer this document for OFBiz Community Days dates.

In the weeks leading up to a Community Day we will post reminders on the mailing lists and also indicate if there are any specific tasks that we would like to accomplish on the day.

What can I do on a Community Day?

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We have a lot work related to documentation. We have done some work tidying up our Technical Documentation and next we would like to focus on the End User Documentation but help with any documentation is always welcome. We are consolidating all our documentation into the Wiki so will be moving documents from the End User Documetation Documentation workspace.Some of the key tasks we need help with are :

  • Writing End User Documentation for the Wiki - we need help filling in any documentation gaps
  • Reviewing the existing documentations documentation - we may have information that is now out of date or has been duplicated and need help identifying these
  • Updating existing documentation - correcting existing documentation and making sure all that it is up to date

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  • Reviewing the list of open JIRA issues an assigning yourself to an open issue - (NOTE: Contributors can now assign themselves to JIra issues and this let's lets us know that you are working on them)
  • Providing a patch for a JIRA issue (If you are not setup as a contributor you can still help us by providing a patch for a reported problem - just attach the patch to the issue and add a comment with the details)

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  • Review JIRA issues and confirm if the original reported issue still exists (we have a lot of issues that may now be out of date but havent haven't been closed )
  • Test patches that have been submitted by community members to fix issues (before we can commit these we need a thorough test that the patch works and doesnt doesn't break any existing functionality)
  • Creating automated tests using JUnit or Selenium

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  • Create a JIRA for the new feature or wish and make sure it it flagged Loorrectlycorrectly
  • If you have a patch or code that you would like to contribute then please attach it to the JIRA for testing and review

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This is a community event so everyone as a part of the community can decide what they want to work on. If there are specific work tasks that a group of people want to work on together then that is also fine.  There is no formal organisation or management but we will be:

  • Posting reminders on the mailing lists leading up to a Community Day
  • Trying to capture statistics around the number of issues worked on (We will need to rely on JIRA for this)
  • Trying to captuire capture information around any documentation worked on
  • Carrying out a survey after the Community Day to help provide feedback about the Community Day and any possible improvements for the future

OFBiz Chat

You can access the OFBiz room for chat, interactive collaboration or mentoring at the following link:  The OFBiz channel @ slack

Note: To chat with users and developers of Apache OFBiz.
Please create a Slack account using this invite link and join the #ofbiz channel. Please do not ask OFBiz questions in the #general channel.