[Vtigercrm-developers] Let's make 7.4 fruitful

[Alan Lord]

Thanks for reaching out Uma,

Here are some of my suggestions (not in any preferential order):

1. Get vtiger up-to-date in terms of requirements for PHP etc. And then 
have a process/plan to keep it up-to-date, i.e. using unit tests, 
linters etc. FWIW, php7.3 ends active support in 2 months. 7.4 has been 
out for nearly a year already.

2. Improve the server/rest APIs so they provide better information (i.e. 
optional user-level formatting of returned, data, see 
http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-developers/2020-August/038853.html 
and 
http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-developers/2020-August/038838.html). 
Maybe move the REST API to json format like vtiger cloud?

3. Import the webhook workflow functionality from Cloud

4. Add support to vtws_retrieve so any user can get "safe" information 
about _any_ other user. See #1155 and 
http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-developers/2020-April/038517.html

5. Fix #676, #1003 and try to remove that horrible hack 
vtlib_setup_modulevars(). All the necessary information should be in the 
respective modules' class file anyway. I really fail to see what the 
point of this is and it continues to cause problems.

6. Code cleanup. There are multiple copies of the long and complex 
date/time structures such as in modules/Vtiger/models/Field.php line 
653, modules/Reports/ReportRun.php line 1740, modules/Reports/Report.php 
line 990, modules/CustomView/models/Record.php line 805, 
modules/CustomView/CustomView.php line 569... There are so many 
instances of code duplication (not just the above)... Put it all in ONE 
place, then there's only one place we have to fix later on.

7. Fix filters so admins can remove/edit all of them and default landing 
when not "all": #706, #1461

8. #1240

9. See merge request #585 which added support for customising core 
language files. Please extend functionality in a way similar to my 
suggestion 
https://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/merge_requests/585#note_8739

10. Update online documentation for the Open Source platform. It's not 
been changed for *ages*. (If you, vtiger don't have the bandwidth, then 
let us in the community have some level of access to the wiki or 
whatever and let us write some of it - you could have a moderator's role 
to approve/deny if you like).

That should do for now ;-)

Cheers

Al

On 11/09/2020 06:58, Uma S wrote:
> Dear Developer,
> 
> We are happy to accept more ideas from the community on what are the top 
> 10 wish enhancements for 7.4? So that we can make the release fruitful.
> 
> I would request all the community members to take part in this to share 
> their thoughts.