Anil, I agree with you. Jacques, I don't use pos, but I think it's good idea to keep it where it's. I think it's more likely, it will be used more than what goes in Extra. It fits "specialpurpose".
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Anil Patel <anil.pa...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote: > 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. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>> >>> >
