Hi. First, I am not privy to exact dynamism around OpenERP, so I might be wrong. But what I have gathered so far is OpenERP depends on Tiny.
If true then there're two directions the project can take: either grow by the genius of Tiny or stumble if Tiny stumbles. In either case the community will be a mere spectator in the near future (possibly doing some extra addons, documentation, etc). If the later happens then the community can decide to take up the pieces and move on. Since the community is not part of the core, the journey here will be long. In the former case the community will continue to be a spectator (maybe happy spectator in this case!). The former case is more prominent with proprietary products (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, etc). Their financial muscles acts as some sort of a guarantee. The middle ground is a fork (Tryton!). But a fork is not useful unless there's really value added. Sun (with Java, OpenOffice, OpenSolaris, Netbeans and now MySQL) have successfully managed to involve the community without losing controll. Sun employees retain some kind of veto on decisions but active members are invited to join the core. The procedure for joining the core is clear and there's some kind of a poll to elect members of the community that merit joining the core team. A similar strategy is used by Apache, with even more rigour and dynamism. So, as I said, I don't know where Tiny (and OpenERP) stands at the moment and/or future plans/direction. Thank you. Mugoma, Yengas. [email protected] wrote: > You are so right! > The community is us, and we have to help each other instead of only demanding > support from Tiny. > If we all spent only half an hour a week helping others, we all benefit. > As for the software distribution, I agree. Launchpad is for developers, not > for users. > It would be good to have the downloadable addons back on the/a website. > Same for wiki. I think a wiki system will give us the ability to write simple > howto's etc. So when a question arises, first look in the wiki instead of > going trough a bunch of forum/mailinglist entries. > What I learned the past few years is that open source software is as good as > it's community supporting it. Take ubuntu. Their community has lots of > members that are willing to help others. > But as for every community: In ubuntu forums there are also lots of > unanswered questions. I've never heard users complain that Canonical did not > help them. > So stop blaming Tiny for not answering questions, help others and be helped. > And for giving help, you're not asked to solve all problems, but pointing in > the right direction is helpful too. > Just my thoughts, > Freerk > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > -- > http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34029#34029 > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Tinyerp-users mailing list > http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
