I've recently got some feedback from different people interested in
evaluating OFBiz, plus other interesting comments in these lists
(problems downloading by svn when the bandwidth is poor)... it seems
that many of they had problems to find an easy way to download OFBiz.
I think that we should provide an easy way to download (by ftp) a
compressed archive to the ones that are just interested in evaluating
the product.
Of course, as soon as the version 4.0 will be officially released, they
will have a file to download; however I don't think that the release 4.0
will be the right version to consider for an evaluation... the trunk is
the best option and we should encourage people to see it in action.
A simple solution is this: create a weekly or, better (as suggested by
Jacques), monthly svn snapshot (svn export), then compress it and
publish it somewhere in a very visible area of the main page of the
website; we could also provide a link to the "main new features of the
month" (e.g. http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/-Qs).
What do you think?
Jacopo
