People are really worried on the idea of moving certain components from Ofbiz trunk to Ofbiz Extras. Why is it so?
Moving a component from Ofbiz trunk to Ofbiz Extras does not mean that the component is not good and so we are throwing it out. Instead idea is to allow components to grow by giving them little more freedom. Like Jacopo mentioned in one of his responses, Projects from Ofbiz Extras can still post updates on Ofbiz lists. Finally if a Project in Extras is useful for business, people will keep improving it and community will grow. Thanks and Regards Anil Patel HotWax Media Inc On Mar 21, 2012, at 8:34 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > They are more generic sure, I wonder for the pos... > > Jacques > > From: "Mansour Al Akeel" <mansour.alak...@gmail.com> >> Jacques, >> Yes. You are right. I meant projectmgr. :) >> I believe assetmaint and projectmgr are used more than others and good >> to keep them where they are. >> Thank you. >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Jacques Le Roux >> <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: >>> partymgr is in application will not move, you meant ProjectMgr right? >>> >>> Jacques >>> >>> From: "Mansour Al Akeel" <mansour.alak...@gmail.com> >>> >>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> >>
