Walter Vaughan wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
Walter Vaughan wrote:
I think the word "dangerous" is slightly inflammatory.
In what way? Could you be more specific?
It's not like someone just slipped this in. It's been in OFBiz ever
since I knew of the project... at least over a year. I think of
"dangerous precedent" in windows of shorter time spans.
Good point! We're lucky no one else has tried to do this in that time.
What we need is a well organized, highly visible place for things
that attach to the project that live in the hot-deploy directory. We
should be encouraging an ecosystem of plugable add-ins be they
true-open, viral-open, or closed-commercial variety.
For projects/products based on OFBiz:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Apache+OFBiz+User+List
What's missing is content in the description of what features. I just
noticed those pages were posted in the last day, so that's an unfair
criticism.
Also we're not using any sort of normal jargon like "Add-ons",
"Plug-ins", "Enhancements", "Extensions" or whatever to help grow and
support these efforts.
This is certainly something that can be improved.
What did you have in mind that is different from this?
May be a link that says "ofBiz Add-ons"?
What hurts us is that we loose consistent branding from the main site to
the wiki, and the wiki's logo puts you in "geek h-e-double toothpicks".
I can hardly imagine what the Michael J. Scott's of the world think when
they land on that dashboard page.
I totally agree with you, we need a LOT of improvements in the marketing side
of OFBiz. That just hasn't been something very many people have contributed to.
Because of the typical motivation of OFBiz users there is a lot of code moving
around, but no central group to help out with marketing efforts. A few have
expressed interest but only limited efforts have happened so far.
Are these things you'd like to help with? Or is anyone else inspired by this?
-David
