Marketing Committee Meeting 20211224

Date: 2021-12-24
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/m9b5xu3r7jdimepcsgiwuew7co

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

What's new from this week?
- Technical Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-2901 Period Control Management / improve cache management
  - IDEMPIERE-3476 2Pack: attribute set install is not reference by UUID / integrate patch from hieplq
  - IDEMPIERE-4262 on some condition, record insert by direct sql missing UUID
- Development Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-4214 Javadoc: correct warnings on newest java version
  - IDEMPIERE-4723 Clean up iDempiere's code - processes
  - IDEMPIERE-5105 Remove unused and/or unnecessary code in Print Format Item Script feature
  - IDEMPIERE-5119 Make Commission Calculation extensible
  - IDEMPIERE-5121 MStorageOnHand API enhancements
- Bug fixes
  - IDEMPIERE-4580 - Fix broken image url
  - IDEMPIERE-5104 MLookup: Inconsistent use of TabNo
  - IDEMPIERE-5103 Clear Parent Tax ID if a Tax Rate record is Summary
  - IDEMPIERE-5112 NF8.2 Print Format Item Script not working on Oracle
  - IDEMPIERE-5113 MInfoWindow: column access doesn't work if From clause is created without synonym/alias
  - IDEMPIERE-5114 MProjectTypePhase: getTasks() should return only active task records
  - IDEMPIERE-5115 Create Inventory Count List - Inventory Quantity = 0 - broken
  - IDEMPIERE-5118 MUOMConversion fix and improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-5122 Enforce Product UOM not work when user update UOM conversion record
- Functional Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-4836 Document status access tab
  - IDEMPIERE-4882 On Inventory Move, Adding Warehouse and Warehouse To field on header
  - IDEMPIERE-5111 Data type improvements to Print Format Item Script
- Usability Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-5107 Can't 2pack zip for Window Role - improve showing error messages
  - IDEMPIERE-5116 Recent Item on System Configurator revealing too much information
  - IDEMPIERE-5123 On location dialog and location Editor, Region translation is not respected
- Performance Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-5110 Manufacturing performance enhancements
- Release
  - IDEMPIERE-5109 Release 9 Horizon
- New Wiki Entries
Celebration Time - let’s celebrate our iDempiere Marketing accomplishments!
- Accomplishments in 2021
  - Loyalty program submitted by Eugene
  - First-ever iDempiere community survey
  - 15 Minutes in iDempiere initiative (6 documentation videos from that)
  - Top Makers (Organizations) were chosen and listed on the official website
  - We set guidelines for distros and clarified more what the project expects from them
  - Top Makers 2020 Badge
  - We improve the donation message, PayPal images, donation dedicated page on the website.
  - The project changed the branch names and versioning notation thanks to @muriloht's suggestion.
  - We have a list of specific contributions (how can you help). (WIP) Pending to publish
  - Plugin page improvement
  - Improve SEO on the website
  - Features website improvement (WIP). Pending to publish
  - We participated in the Hacktoberfest
  - Two community test days
  - 11 Heroes
  - Community-chosen version name
  - Community-generated blog post
- The marketing committee met a total of 48 times
Roadmap goals for 2022 - iDempiere 10
- For 2022 we would like to:
  - Found an official foundation
  - Improve Documentation
    - Start with technical and move on to functional
  - Improve plugin organization
  - Try to compensate the bias in external reviews by highlighting the real benefits of iDempiere
  - Develop the community, make people feel proud of being part of iDempiere, making people eager to be part of it