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O L I V I E R D O N Y

Building a better, global product with the community

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Agenda

 Community Facts  New Community Tools  Main Contribution Processes

 Translations  Bug reports  Bug fixes and improvements  New features – new modules  Localizations

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Community Facts

www.openerp.com visits 4 million visits per year 2 million unique visitors, 50% new

Top Visiting Countries

#1 France / India (300k)

#2 Spain / USA (200k)

#3 Germany (150k)

#4 Belgium (140k)

#5 Morocco (130k)

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Community Facts (Q1 2012)

3,760

3,942,979

42

2,002

17,132

2,781

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Community Facts (Q1 2012)

3,760

3,942,979

42

2,002

17,132

2,781

Forum Users

OpenERP Apps

@OpenERP followers Registered Contributors

Yearly Web Visitors

Translation Teams

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Daily Community Feedback

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How did we do in 2011?

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How did we do in 2011?

 4,200 bug/suggestion reports  ~20 bug reports/business day  2,200 code reviews (merge proposals)  20 new translation teams assigned  ~340,000 total translation terms maintained

 One full OpenERP translation = 18,700 terms (340k=18x)

 30 standard localization modules maintained

Imagine the massive amount of work!

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How do those numbers compare?

OpenERP (Launchpad)

Rails (GitHub)

Launchpad (Launchpad)

Chromium (GoogleCode)

Branches / Forks 7,860 3,019 9,609

Issues (-1y) 4,200 5,500 3,000 9,372

Contributors /

Followers 2,780 13,980 4,124

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This powerful force gives an incredible boost to product

maturity

(if properly harnessed)

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Why does it work?

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Why does it work?

 Unique business model  Balanced roles

 Community  Partners  Customers  Editor

 Each works on what is critical for them

 Each role works on what others cannot work on

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Community Tools

OpenERP Apps Apps library

o  Tracks changes

o  Global visibility

o  Top Contributors

o  Extra-addons

Future

o  Rating system

o  Better UI

o  Better integration

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Publish your work!

1.  Upload your work in your own LP branch 2.  Be sure to include description and screenshots 3.  On apps.openerp.com, click on “Register branch” 4.  Check format requirements, choose a version 5.  Done!

Your modules are automatically tracked and published as they evolve, and visible to the whole community

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Runbot

 Monitors branches  Automated test suite  Coverage reports  Live testing

runbot.openerp.com

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Runbot

 Partners can register their own branches!

 Access via Partner Portal

runbot.openerp.com

openerp.my.openerp.com

runbot.openerp.com

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Nightly Builds

 Day+1 access to bugfixes  Same packages as releases  Same value as minor versions

(e.g. 6.0.3)  Will actually replace minor

versions in the future

nightly.openerp.com

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Main Contribution Processes

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Translations

 Translate online  Shared suggestions  Automatic sync  40+ languages  Language inheritance  3 projects  ~18000 terms in total

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Translations

 Teamwork!  Guidelines  Glossary  Community suggestions  Regular reviews

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Bug Reports

 R&D team fixes trunk  OpenERP Enterprise team fixes stable

 Requirements and results are different  Resources are different  Funding is different

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Bug Reports

 R&D team fixes trunk   Report on Launchpad   Wait for bug triage (1-2 days, best effort)   Test fix live on Runbot   Grab nightly build

 OpenERP Enterprise team fixes stable   Report via OpenERP Enterprise maintenance   Wait for feedback (guaranteed, depending on plan)   Test fix live on Runbot   Grab nightly build

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Bug Reports

http://runbot.openerp.com

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Patches // Improvements

 Typical merge proposals:   Improvements for the official addons  Bug corrections  Modules that are required in certain countries

 Other new features:  Should live in a separate module to respect modular design  Publish them on OpenERP Apps!

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Patches // Improvements

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New Features // New Modules

 Invaluable advantage of OpenERP: the number of community modules!

 Combine efforts with other community members  Possibly create your own LP projects to benefit from

bug tracking, translations, etc.

 Did I mention? Please publish your work!

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Localizations // Chart of Accounts

  l10n_xx module contents:  Chart(s) of Accounts (*)

 Account types  Accounts

 Chart(s) of Taxes (*)  Tax codes  Taxes

 Fiscal positions  Specific legal reports  Banking import/export

interfaces

 No business logic code (almost)

 Considered “required”  Bootstrap with an

existing one (e.g. l10n_be)

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Thanks for your contributions!

 2012: we continue improving contribution processes  Merge proposals should be reviewed in real time  You can help by reviewing others’ work!

 Join us on the community channels (mailing-lists, LP answers, forum, IRC)

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Will happily explain in more details and discuss this with you, join me in the

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