From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com>
H) specialpurpose/*: move several (if not all, apart ecommerce) of the components to "Extras" (if there are persons interested to
become committers/maintainers) or to "Attic"
There seems to be a general agreement to slim down the number of applications in this group and move them to Extras (see
exceptions below).
I am summarizing here some notes but we should actually use this thread to continue the discussion about what should go to
specialpurpose in general rather than focusing on the decision about removal of specific applications; we can then start a
separate thread for each component.
Adrian would like to keep one or two components to demonstrate the concept of reusing artifacts to create custom applications
(Jacopo: can we use the "exampleext" component for this?)
Hans would like to keep the ones that he considers feature complete like asset maintenance, LDAP, POS, e-commerce, cmssite,
projectmgr and scrum.
Jacopo: in my opinion even in the above list provided by Hans there are applications that are barely examples (cmssite) or are
very specific implementation of very specific requirements (difficult to be used if your company doesn't have exactly these
requirements): projectmgr and scrum; some of these components also extends (adding special purpose fields) the generic data model
and this happens even if the user is not interested in evaluating the specialpurpose component. I also don't think that some of
the components meet minimum quality requirements to be distributed with OFBiz: for example the scrum component uses a mechanism
that is unique to demo its features (i.e. published a demo webapp with online instructions for demo data) that is not used by
other applications (and this makes the suite of applications inconsistent); also, the component refers to resources that are owned
by Hans' company. All in all, they seem very specific piece of codes that should better live as optional plugins downloaded
separately. So in my opinion the "concept" of specialpurpose application is in general better suited for Apache Extras rather than
for the OFBiz svn and releases.
Basically I'd keep only eCommerce and POS, maybe asset maintenance (arguments?).
LDAP could be moved IMO, else why not crowd, etc. The less exceptions the better
Jacques
