Happy new year... Version 6 of OpenERP finally there

So I am starting 2011 as I finished 2010 - very busy.

The great news is that indeed version 6 of OpenERP is finally out.

For the blog, I will concentrate on OpenERP programming but also functional experience this year.

I wish to all those reading this blog from time to time a very happy 2011 !

OpenERP - various things

In average, the webinars organized so far were not an advertising for webex. Very poor sounds and high delays made these presentation real pains. It seems a part were from local settings... And unfortunately none of these sessions were recorder !

The last one, was probably the best (Oliver speak more slowly) and used slides instead of showing the real app. The result was much more acceptable.

http://www.slideshare.net/openobject/openerpv6technicalpresentation

I had a look at OERPScenario from camp2camp. This is a testing framework in "natural language". I agree on the target and the general concept. The implementation (in Ruby) annoys me more than anything else. 

Natural language is in this case more regexp than anything else and require ... Ruby coding. If we augment the capacity of the system, we will have hundreds of sentence to know ... is that natural?

So, it remains that currently the framework provides very few objects and  I have troubles to imagine a real test-driven project with this framework.


I will come back later on accounting stuff. V6 is for me the first release that can pretend deliver proper accounting functions (at least out of the box). I recommend following

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583666

OpenERP has changed its bug fixing policy, basically they are focusing on the trunk and fixes in stable are done only when reported through a maintenance contract. This is in theory to avoid regression. I think they also push the selling of the maintenance contract (legitimate target). My fear is that getting the next stable will take much more time on the other sides it encourages people to test during the Beta tests. 

It is there - OpenERP V6 RC1 - first beta release is out

The future of open-source enterprise solution is in preview at :
http://www.openerp.com/downloads

OpenERP V6 - webminars - registration information

 FYI some early information about V6 – please note attendance is limited:

Dear Partner,

OpenERP will soon release the new version V6.0!

Therefore, our CEO Fabien Pinckaers will do a series of five Webinars, starting from October.
These Webinars will last about 2 hours and will be public.

The agenda is as follows:

    October the 6th, 10.00-12.00
    Part I/5 : New ergonomy, CRM , Marketing Campaign

    October the 12th, 10.00-12.00
    Part 2/5 : Manufacturing and Logistics

    October the 20th, 10.00-12.00
    Part 3/5 : Accounting and Finance

    October the 27th, 10.00-12.00
    Part 4/5 : HR and Project Management

    November the 3rd, 10.00-12.00
    Part 5/5 : Technical Presentation

You are warmly invited to take part to these Webinars, which will give you the unique opportunity to have a deep insight of the new version of the software.

You can register online to the public sessions through www.openerp.com/events or directly on Eventbrite:

    - Part I/5 (New ergonomy, CRM , Marketing Campaign): visit http://openerpwebinar15.eventbrite.com

    - Part 2/5 (Manufacturing and Logistics): visit http://openerpwebinar17.eventbrite.com

    - Part 3/5 (Accounting and Finance): visit http://openerpwebinar19.eventbrite.com

    - Part 4/5 (HR and Project Management): visit http://openerpwebinar21.eventbrite.com

    - Part 5/5 (Technical Presentation): visit http://openerpwebinar23.eventbrite.com

OpenERP V6 Call for contribution

If you can invest time and want to participate to the polishing of the new V6 read this:

http://bit.ly/9N1s2y

Open ERP Installing the trunk... previewing version 6

If you want to see a previewing of the next Open ERP you will need the following...

sudo easy_install formencode
sudo easy_install babel

It is the first time, I got the new look & feel...

Very elegant design. Although I think the colours should be more contrasted to ease readability. Ergonomy and elegance are two things...

The Axelor logo is gone, confirming that the web stuff has been entirely rewritten...

Obviously Ajax driven application have better network performance.


More and more to come (in spite I am very busy...)

Olivier Dony presentation at the "Jornadas OpenERP 2010"

Olivier Dony (OpenERP community manager and excellent trainer) posted the following...

http://www.openerp.com/talks/odony-jornadas-openerp-2010-05-14.pdf

and

http://vimeo.com/11737021

Enjoy plenty of good stuff about the soon coming version 6.0 

OpenERP - running the Trunk - YAML dependency missing

So I got the  latest tunk from Bazaar

First run :

chanon@batman:~/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin$ ./openerp-server.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./openerp-server.py", line 54, in
    import netsvc
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/netsvc.py", line 273, in
    import tools
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/tools/__init__.py", line 26, in
    from convert import *
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/tools/convert.py", line 40, in
    from yaml_import import convert_yaml_import
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/tools/yaml_import.py", line 10, in
    import yaml_tag
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/tools/yaml_tag.py", line 1, in
    import yaml
ImportError: No module named yaml


Solution : http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML (find the PyYAML package you need, run the sudo python setup.py install command).

Second

[2010-04-23 13:10:34,751] INFO:objects:initialising distributed objects services
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./openerp-server.py", line 91, in
    import report
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/report/__init__.py", line 22, in
    import interface
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/report/interface.py", line 32, in
    import render
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/report/render/__init__.py", line 23, in
    from rml import rml, rml2html, rml2txt, odt2odt , html2html, makohtml2html
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/report/render/rml.py", line 28, in
    import makohtml2html as makohtml
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/report/render/makohtml2html/__init__.py", line 22, in
    from makohtml2html import parseNode
  File "/home/chanon/openerp-TRUNK/openerp/server/bin/report/render/makohtml2html/makohtml2html.py", line 21, in
    import mako
ImportError: No module named mako


So one more Template engine for today, solution :

easy_install Mako

And that's it. More about 6.0 later...