topic Re: Please update roadmap in Alfresco Archive

Please update roadmap

erny18031 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:43:59 GMT

Hi.The Roadmap at: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/Roadmapseems to be out of date.From the JIRA issues it's a bit difficult to see where are the priorities.Could you update please the Roadmap a bit so everyone can see what are short and mid term goals and what not?Thanks in advance

Re: Please update roadmap

trademak — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:28:31 GMT

Hi,

Good point. But let's make this a community effort.
What do you think is important for the next version of Activiti?

Best regards,

Re: Please update roadmap

erny18031 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:39:23 GMT

hello Tijs,

Hi,

Good point. But let's make this a community effort.
What do you think is important for the next version of Activiti?

Best regards,

We're using Activiti from a Django application, so we're using the REST interface.

We, at Yaco, added some operations such as:
* Create users
* Get process variables
* Return "category" field in process definitions
* Reassign task to another user
* get all tasks from a process instance
* get task definitions from process definitions
* get bpmn resource from a process definition
* claim / complete user task for other user than authenticated
* get bpmn diagram in png format
* may be some more

Most issues are already registered in JIRA and still open with patches attached.

On the other and, multi-tenancy would really be great. I already read the existing JIRA issue and the forums. Although using domain prefixes for process definitions and users is great and easy, we still have all the data in the same database / tables, so, it's a bit difficult to make separate backups. It really would be great if we could switch the database based on the user domain name. I don't know if Alfresco split the data for multiple tenants in separate DBs. But there is an export facility, so it's possible to get the data for one tenant, I think. Perhaps, an export/import facility would be a great thing for migration between instances or different database systems.

Another issue which I read about is a problem when deploying standard BPMN 2.0 process definitions with swimlanes, where an exception is thrown.

Summarizing:
* REST interface
* Multi-tenancy
* Better BPMN 2.0 standard support.

Best regards.
Erny
Yaco.

Re: Please update roadmap

andregs — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:09:28 GMT

Hi,

Good point. But let's make this a community effort.
What do you think is important for the next version of Activiti?

Best regards,

I think it's important the resizing of elements (with proper word-wrap) in Activiti Designer, and support for pools/lanes and bpmn annotations (comments).

Is there a place where we can vote in items we consider important for the next versions?

Regards,

Re: Please update roadmap

trademak — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:07:09 GMT

Hi,

I'll look at these REST patches for sure. Must have slipped somewhere.
I would propose to use this forum post for some more time and investigate all wishes.
Then I'll create a Wiki page with the wish list where everybody can add their votes.

Best regards,

Re: Please update roadmap

erny18031 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:07:50 GMT

Hi,

I'll look at these REST patches for sure. Must have slipped somewhere.
I would propose to use this forum post for some more time and investigate all wishes.
Then I'll create a Wiki page with the wish list where everybody can add their votes.

Best regards,

Hi again.

It's possible that our patches don't have enought quality or no tests included. But it would great to have feed back on that issues: 945, 946, 947, 959, 960. 948 is lower priority.

Today, we signed Alfresco Contribution Agreement for msaelices and me. Off-site employees antoniomaria and esanchez will follow soon.

Best regards.
Erny

Re: Please update roadmap

erny18031 — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:49:52 GMT

Tijs,

Any update on this?

Erny

Hi,

I'll look at these REST patches for sure. Must have slipped somewhere.
I would propose to use this forum post for some more time and investigate all wishes.
Then I'll create a Wiki page with the wish list where everybody can add their votes.

Best regards,

Re: Please update roadmap

jbarrez — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:28:11 GMT

Hi Erny,

We received the agreement, we're now finalizing the procedure.

Best regards,