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Yes, we do believe that it is worth the effort. The main benefit will be a cleaner, tidier code base that will allow us a lot the flexibility to grow and interface to a range of technologies easily.
Planning and Approach
The re-factor covers the whole OFBiz code base so we need a simple approach that makes it easy for people to pick up, re-factor and improve an area. This means that we probably wont be able to run it as a traditional linear project. Instead we will look to highlight areas of work where the community can help.
Main Approach
- Identify a list of 5 possible key re-factoring areas
- Ask the Community for volunteers to help re-factor in these 5 selected areas
- As one area is completed, we will top up the list of with another area so that the total will remain at 5
- Use of JIRA for tracking work (e.g open a master issue for each area identified and include individual sub-tasks)
Reasoning
- A short list of 5 is good number to highlight the key areas
- A list will help focus the community
- As one area is finished we can easily move to another
- Over time the initial re-factoring will make further re-factoring easier
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Current Top 5 Re-factoring Focus Areas
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