Marketing Committee Meeting 20210521

Date: 2021-05-21
Time: 12:00 UTC
Venue: Mattermost - Channel: Marketing
Called by: Marketing Committee

You can find the detailed meeting here:
https://mattermost.idempiere.org/idempiere/pl/a6q61bknftdxbp6objt7wxxiwa

Summary of the day
Participation
Meeting led by: Diego
Meeting notes and follow-up actions: Diego
Attendance list: Diego, Carlos, Chuck, Heng Sin, Norbert Bede

What's new from this week?
- Bug fixes
  - IDEMPIERE-4790 Deactivating ToolbarDetail Customize button throws NPE when using Toggle button
- Development Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-4773 Add form factory base class backed by Map and Lambda functional object
  - IDEMPIERE-4791 Pass PA_DashboardContent information to IDashboardGadgetFactory
- Usability Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-4787 Dashboard / Report : add Refresh button
  - IDEMPIERE-4792 Bring back frozen column feature for desktop browser
  - IDEMPIERE-4793 Implement drag beyond page (scroll) in trees (Trek 1007493)
- You can see the active committers here:
  - https://www.openhub.net/p/iDempiere/contributors?sort=latest_commit
Community survey results analysis
- We should improve the training process to new developers.
- @carlosruiz suggests attracting new developers focusing on the "business data-centric app framework"
- @carlosruiz says that it is not necessary to teach core to get new developers to know how to extend iDempiere
- @norbertbede expresses that:
  - I agree, idempiere really much more then ERP - the reason why we are using it.
  - I agree with split and propagate as business framework
  - we need better ux - approx 5-10 components are really missing - that is also good marketing topic.
  - deployment - other nodejs projects says - deploy in 5 min to cloud - that must be more prepared.
  - rest and frontend development is crucial we can share some use cases - how you can build modern frontend (many cms framework write blogs how to make eg. a simple ecommerce with their system) - leet say use complex backend for your frontend...project