+ 1 on move of majority of apps in specialpurpose to 'Extras', excluding projectmgr as it displays how to use OFBiz in a different industry than ecommerce/webshop. Is it not so that OFBiz is versatile. ProjectMgr does deliver some of that versatility.
Regards, Pierre Op 20 maart 2012 12:47 schreef Jacopo Cappellato < jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> het volgende: > > > > 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. > > >
