I would recommend keeping partymgr and assetmaint. I am not sure if accounting depends on assetmain.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > + 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. >> >> >>
