in that vain http://addons.oscommerce.com/
Anil Patel sent the following on 11/24/2008 6:36 PM: > Here is another one, This is much simple, something like what I mentioned > > http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/JIRA+Plugins > > > Regards > Anil Patel > On Nov 24, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Anil Patel wrote: > >> I am talking about something like this. >> >> http://www.sugarexchange.com/ >> >> Regards >> Anil Patel >> >> On Nov 24, 2008, at 9:08 PM, David E Jones wrote: >> >>> >>> 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 >>> >> > > >
