Dolibarr Project

This page provides informations on Dolibarr organization of project, different roles of actors and actions to do.

Dolibarr history and future (Roadmap)

See page Origin, history and future roadmap of Dolibarr

Actors and their roles in the Dolibarr galaxy

The current Dolibarr team is a group of people, helped (or sponsored) by miscellaneous physicals or morals contributors (companies, foundations). The following chapters presents roles and functions occupied by everybody in the Dolibarr project management. This make possible to understand the way the project works. Some roles and functions are always waiting for candidates.

Volunteers to apply to a role in the project are invited to send a message on the dev mailing list of Dolibarr.

If you need information to participate as a developer, the page Developer FAQ How to be an official developer may be more helpfull.

The following links show a list of actors that works are have worked on Dolibarr project.

• Everybody
• All retired actors
• All active actors

The following chapters shows the different developer roles in a first time and every non-developer roles. All these roles contributes to enhance Dolibarr.

Developers roles

Developer grade Yoda (GIT project and commit leader, all modules)

Goal/Permissions: Global management of Dolibarr project. Organize beta, create releases and package the standard distribution.

Have this role actualy:

• Laurent Destailleur (DoliCloud) - Project leader since June 2008, also known as BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life)
• Maxime Kohlhaas - Backup project leader
• Juanjo Menent (2Byte) - Backup project leader - Retired/Désengagé/Retirado.
• Rodolphe Quiédeville - Initial author / project leader (2002 to june 2008) - Retired/Désengagé/Retirado.

Role need helper: No (by definition, this role is limited to the project leader and backups)

Note: All tasks to build a package for a new Dolibarr release are defined into the file build/makepack-howto.txt available into dolibarr sources.

Developer grade Jedi module X (GIT project and commit leader, for a particular module)

Goal/Permissions: Externalise development of new modules outside the core developer team.

Have this role actualy to work on modules (name - module):

• For branch N-1: Laurent Destailleur
• For branch 18.0: Eric Seigne + Lionel Vessiller: position to be filled: No
• For branch N-x: None - position to be filled: Yes

Role need helper for module X: Yes, for all modules/features that does not exists or with no active developer (1 responsible by module). Please ask if you want this role with a new module idea on Dolibarr dev mailing-list.

Developer grade Admiral (GIT Commits for fix only patches)

Goal/Permissions: Develop, add or simply validate and commit, into GIT repository, some fix patches.

Only after a variable time (which can be very long) to the rank of Fighter, and if the quality of all patch that was sent is satisfactory, a Yoda in place will provide you direct GIT access. You become an Admiral of the alliance Dolibarr.

This title can't be requested. It is obtained by a decision or proposal of a Jedi or a Yoda who believes that you have submitted enough patches to be a serious Admiral. The Admiral GIT access, however, must be used to commit translations or bug fixes reported on Savannah or the forum (that is personal or corrections from a patch submitted by a Fighter). All GIT commits must necessarily include in its description (commit log field), the issue of Savannah bug corrected or the title of the forum message indicating the problem. Only translations escapes this constraint (no restrictions for translations). Failure to observe this constraint may lead to permission removing. To submit new features, patches must still by send to the Dolibarr-dev Mailing-list.

Obtaining the rank of Admiral is as rare as limited. Dolibarr quality can not be achieved by a too large number of Admirals, but this does not means that there is not an important number of fighters (submitting patches).

Role need helper: Yes (This role, however, is not achieved simply by postulating. See FAQ How to become an official developer for the circuit to follow)

Identified as having this role currently or recently (accounts validated in savannah, in alphabetical order): Click on name to see "contributor" and check their status (active contributor / withdrawn)

https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr/graphs/contributors

+ All developers with higher level.

Developer grade Z-6PO (GIT commiters to add translation patches)

Goal/Permissions: Integrate and commit into GIT, patches related to translation (or typographic fixes). No other changes.

Have this role actually:

• Catalan: Juanjo Menent
• English: Laurent Destailleur
• French: Philippe Grand
• German: Lars Wohlfahrt
• Japanese: Christophe Buffenoir
• Netherlands: Remco Gerbrands
• Norway: Egil Hansen
• Portuguese: Tiago Cruz
• Spanish: Juanjo Menent
• Russian: Alex

+ All developers with higher level.

Role need helper: Yes (ideally, 1 Z-6PO for each language)

Articles on this topic: Translator documentation

Developer grade Fighter (Submit patch by files)

Goal/Permissions: Submit enhancements/fixes by sending patch by mail

Role need helper: Yes (no limit. Patch must be submited on the Dolibarr-dev Mailing-List. Click here to subscribe).

Have this role actually:

• Number too high to be counted.

Developer grade Soldier (Users wich never send patches)

Goal/Permissions: Submit your first patch by mail to be upgraded to the Fighter level.

Role need helper: Yes (no limit. Patch must be submitted on the Dolibarr-dev Mailing-List. Click here to subscribe).

Have this role actually:

• All Dolibarr users with a "developer feeling". Number too high to be counted.

Other roles on Dolibarr project

Role A: Hosting web site (http://www.dolibarr.org or local portal)

Goal: Provide a platform and exploit it to host the Dolibarr web site (based on Joomla).

Have this role actually:

• Laurent Destailleur (NLTechno) (for international portal http://www.dolibarr.org)
• Régis Houssin (Cap-Networks) (for French portal http://www.dolibarr.fr)
• Juanjo Menent (2Byte.es) (for Spanish portal http://www.dolibarr.es)

Role need helper: No

Role B: Hébergement site démo (http://demo.dolibarr.org/public/demo)

Goal: Provide a platform and exploit it to host the online Dolibarr demo.

Have this role actually:

• Laurent Destailleur (NLTechno) (International version autodetect browser language http://demo.dolibarr.org/public/demo)
• Régis Houssin (Cap-Networks) (French version http://demo.dolibarr.fr/public/demo)

Role need helper: No

Role C: Hébergement wiki (http://wiki.dolibarr.org)

Goal: Provide a platform and exploit it to host the Dolibarr wiki (based on mediawiki)

Have this role actually:

• Laurent Destailleur (NLTechno)

Role need helper: No

Role D1: Responsible of DoliWamp distribution (Dolibarr installer for Windows)

Have this role actually:

• Laurent Destailleur (NLTechno)

Role need helper: No

Role D2: Responsible of DoliBuntu distribution (Dolibarr installer for Ubuntu)

Have this role actually:

• Laurent Destailleur (NLTechno)

Role need helper: No

Role D3: Responsible of DoliMamp distribution (Dolibarr installer for Mac OS X)

Have this role actually:

• Régis Houssin (Cap-Networks)

Role need helper: No

Role F: Tools to create modules using MDA (UML2Dolibarr)

Have this role actually or recently:

• Patrick Raguin (Société Auguria)
• Samuel Bouchet (Société Auguria)

Role need helper: See Auguria company if help is required.

Role G: Management of Dolibarr foundation

Goal: Create and manage a foundation to promote dolibarr and help Dolibarr users.

Have this role actually:

• 1 president - See page Association Dolibarr.
• 1 secretary - See page Association Dolibarr.
• 1 financial - See Association Dolibarr.

Role H: Animation of Dolibarr web site

Goal: add news and articles in French (dolibarr.fr) or English (dolibarr.org) web sites

Have this role actually:

• Role need helper: Thanks to people who want to help to send a request on Dolibarr mailing-list.

Role I: Promote/Communicate on Dolibarr

Goal:

• Make communication for Dolibarr, on forums, news sites, press, etc...
• Update the wiki page Press reviews (Paper press and Online press).
• Write articles on Dolibarr web site.

Have this role actually:

• The Dolibarr foundation
• Cyrille de Lambert (Company Auguria)
• Role need helper. Thanks to volunteer to send a request on Dolibarr mailing-list.

Articles on this topic: Message samples used to announce new beta or release.

Role J: Dolibarr Tester

Goal: Test current development version of Dolibarr (GIT develop branch) and reports problems on mailing-list.

Have this role actually:

• About 50 regular users have this role actually (number obtained by analysing messages on forum), more if we add temporary testers.

Role K: Administer domain names

Goal: Administer DNS of dolibarr domain names. Some are not used, just reserved to avoid cyber squatting. Ask us if you plan to use one of them to build a local Dolibarr community.

Have this role actually:

• Régis Houssin for dolibarr.be, dolibarr.cc, dolibarr.ch, dolibarr.co.uk, dolibarr.eu, dolibarr.fr, dolibarr.info, dolibarr.it, dolibarr.me, dolibarr.net, dolibarr.pro, dolibarr.us, dolistore.com, dolibox.org
• Laurent Destailleur for dolibarr.org
• Dolibarr foundation for dolibarr.com (dolibarr.at, dolibarr.pt, dolibarr.se, dolibarr.fi)
• 2Byte.es for dolibarr.es

The GIT access

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The Mailing-lists and groups of information on social networks

See page FAQ How to be inform about Dolibarr project ?

Help the project

This is a list of task you can do to help the project.

If you are a developer

• If you are a developer, join the Dolibarr team. See Developer FAQ for this.

If you speak a non english language

• Translate Dolibarr in your language. See Translator documentation.
• Submit articles to promote Dolibarr on informations web sites on your languages or your own web site. At least, a link to web site http://www.dolibarr.org is never a bad idea.

If you are not a developer, nor a translator

• Complete documentation on this wiki, above all the section User documentation.
• Vote for Dolibarr on: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dolibarr/reviews/
• Vote for Dolibarr on: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/dolibarr
• Vote for Dolibarr on: http://www.linux.com/directory/Software/Productivity/Dolibarr/review
• Add www.dolibarr.org to Google+1 (for this, click on +1 on top left of http://www.dolibarr.org)
• You can also decide to be a member of Dolibarr foundation. See here, to subscribe.

If you want to create a Dolibarr users' group or a local community

• Read our guideline on page Draft:Create_a_Dolibarr_local_community.

Donations

• If you don't want to be a member of the Dolibarr foundation, you can still make a donation to help development: {{#rawmsg:form_donation_en}}

Note that a list of public donors of most important donations can be found here.