I don't believe that this endeavour by the ASF will be a fruitful one. Apache Extra's (on Google) has been abandoned by many since G announced that it would go away. Since BitBucket, Github, SourceForge and others developers have ample opportunities to share code and do joint development.
Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Sharan-F <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > *Apache Extras* > There is some current planning in progress by the ASF to move all the code > in Apache Extras from Google onto SourceForge. OFBiz has the following > code > in Apache Extras > > https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/hosting/search?q=label%3aOFBiz > > I think they also expect to do some cleanup so we may need to get some > feedback from the community to see if this code is still current, needs to > be updated or no longer needs to be included in Apache Extras. > > *OFBiz Extras* > Doing some research, I found this historic mailing list thread > > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/OFBiz-and-Apache-Extras-td4471407.html > > which talked about the setup our our own version of this called OFBiz > Extras, which I think was parly done because of the following: > > http://community.ofbizextra.org/community/control/Home - basic site > about > OFBiz Extra > https://demo.ofbizextra.org/partymgr/control/main - a working version of > OFBiz that includes an Addon Manager for OFBiz and also a range of OFBiz > addons > > We will probably need to start the discussion as to which way to go on this > (i.e Apache Extras vs OFBiz Extras) and it might also be good to see what > addons are available that might be worth considering including in OFBiz > (e.g > I'm currently looking at trying to move the Webhelp addon code into OFBiz > to > render the online help) > > What do people think? > > Thanks > Sharan > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/OFBiz-Apache-Extras-and-OFBiz-Extras-tp4670887.html > Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
