Ruth makes a valid point of the first impression of OFBiz. We want more helpers in all areas from simple user testing to experts in every category. If we send them away because some simple item is broken we are losing potential contributors. The very thing we need.
We want to make an easy onramp for people who are not experts in the OFBiz framework or Java but in their area of expertise; be it medical IT, telephony, product sales, CO-OP or a myriad of other fields. These can select an area of interest, discuss real issues and then pitch in and help the experts test and brainstorm. I read the REAMME like a good old-school Unix user and didn't quite get it from just the README. My OFBiz was running for 2 days and I thought it was still compiling (you can stop laughing now) when I finally pointed the IE to the correct url and it came up as expected. PS I really like a login link when I go somewhere and I'm not logged in. My vote is to keep it. I saw we had much discussion on this but it is worth another look. Dan Dodd -----Original Message----- From: David E Jones [mailto:d...@me.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:14 AM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: Can't login to nightly download The problem is with the new default theme (Bizzness Time) there is no login link in the header, and the main page of webtools does not (and has not historically) required a login. Part of the reason for this is for new/demo users: the main page of webtools recommends a username and password to use to try out the apps. My opinion is that we should add the login link back to the header as it should be, but there seems to be a large group that would rather just change the main page to require login, and not add a login link. I don't know why that is, but I think it's a bit silly, and is another frustrating part of the new theme that has caused so many problems. -David On Jun 17, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Ruth Hoffman wrote: > FYI - > I just downloaded and started up the today's nightly download > package using the README instructions - and I couldn't login to > Webtools. Please see attached. Hate to beat a dead horse - but this > stuff should work according to the README file - at a minimum, for > the nightly download. What gives? IMHO - Better not to have a > nightly download than to provide one that doesn't work as advertised. > > Regards, > Ruth
