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Start Draft of Community Days page as suggested by Pranay.

What is a Community Day?

A Community Day is when every OFBiz community member is invited to work solely on OFBiz bugs, improvements, new features, testing etc. Essentially the community will be working together to achieve something that will benefit OFBiz.

Do I have to participate?

No. Participation is in any of our Community Days is completely optional. You choose whether you participate or not.

When are the Community Days?

We are planning to have one community day each quarter so a total of four (4) 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

 

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?

There are a range of tasks that you can do on a Community Day and you don't need to be a developer to participate. See below of some ideas for Community Day tasks

1. Documentation Updates
2. Bug Fixes
3. Improvements
4. New Features
5. Testing a component and creating automated tests (JUnit, Selenium)

Testing:

  • Review JIRA issues and confirm if the original reported issue still exists (we have a lot of issues that may now be out of date but havent been closed )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 break any existing functionality)

Bug Fixing

  • Review JIRA an assign yourself to an open issue then look at providing a patch to fix the issue

Documentation

 

Why not calling a day Community Day for OFBiz every quarter of the year?
Usually it can be in the 3rd week of the month, lets say Saturday.
This way we will be able to organize 4 big community day every year.

On this day every community member is invited to solely work on OFBiz bugs,
improvements, new features and testing for whole day together. It will be
completely optional to participate.

It should be possible to come together and work with all the available
tools around us for managing OFBiz i.e. mailing lists, JIRA, Confluence.

Just an idea I got, so thought to put it here as I read your email.



How about these dates each quarter-

Q1 - Saturday March 21 2015

Q2 - Saturday June 20 2015

Q3 - Saturday September 19 2015

Q4 - Saturday December 19 2015

If community shows interest we can publish news on OFBiz site for the same.
On start of each quarter we can announce the dates and reminders for the
same in the beginning/middle every month. Reminders are needed so that
interested parties can plan their availability accordingly.

We can call vote for the same, this way we will be able to know if
community is interested in participating in such events.

There will be definitely time zone issue we will face but IMO we should
discuss possibilities. The date and the day is important irrespective of
the time zone. Different groups can be active on the same date and we'll
definitely achieve something.

As one community member dedicates a full day of work around 8 hours he may
work on-
1. Documentation Updates
2. Bug Fixes
3. Improvements
4. New Features
5. Testing a component and creating automated tests (JUnit, Selenium)

In general anything is done for the project on the dedicated day and we'll
be able take community
interaction and spirit to next level.

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