On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Anil Patel wrote:
Hi,
I think it will be good to have a spot on Ofbiz site that acts as
catalog of application available for deployment on ofbiz. There are
various custom applications that people write that can be shared
(they will like to) with community. Sometime for people don't do it
because they can't figure out how and other times they wonder how
community will react to it (I am one of those). I understand that we
cannot keep adding custom stuff to ofbiz trunk. At the same time I
have strong feeling that Generic applications find less users
because they are hard to use.
I don't think anyone is against having "custom" applications in OFBiz,
in fact that's what the specialpurpose set of applications is all
about (unless I misunderstand what you mean by "custom").
If you're referring to comments earlier today about the IS asset
manager application, I think those were just suggestions to improve
what you're working on (and perhaps to head off what will probably
happen in the future, ie natural consolidation and reorganization of
apps after more design and review and such is done).
Most of other open source CRM/ERP have a market place/ catalog where
people post their own little applications. I think we should do
something on those lines. This can be easily achieved by creating a
page on Confluence and have people list their app on it. In the
summary there can be a link to another page that has details of that
application and custom component can be attached to this page.
Do you some examples of these sharing/marketplace type things? We may
have to adapt ideas to work better in a community-driven setting, but
they might be nice to look at for ideas.
-David
