Thanks Brett,
This was very intersting to read. It seems that we (OFBiz users) are converging toward the same needs (CMS with JCR, CRM), hopefully
we will have more strenght to achieve them...
Though I don't expect much for the release process as we still lack human ressources commited toward this goal (and I don't mean
only commiters).
Few comments inline...
Jacques
From: "Brett Palmer" <[email protected]>
* Another suggestion was around content management. The ofbiz CMS is not
fully complete with a UI and business logic. The question was asked if it
was possible to plugin other CSM packages the the Java Content Repository
(JCR).
There has been discussions on dev ML about replacing the current implementation with something based on JCR (wy not
http://jackrabbit.apache.org/) but nothing concret for the moment.
* SugarCRM and other similar applications are examples of very large user
communities because the application is a complete solution. It is difficult
to convince people to use ofbiz because there are pieces that are not
complete and require customization. The ability to customize is a benefit
for some users but a drawback for others and is a hindrance to wide spread
adoption.
I really thing we are not so far from a complete implementation that could compete wih SugarCRM. Though SugarCRM has quite an
advance on the ergonomic side...
* Is it possible to break up the components more into separate installable
modules. For example, framework versus applications. We discussed how this
is currently done but the feedback was to make it easier for people to pick
and choose what components to install.
OSGI ? But is this really a priority for OFBiz ?
* Any plans to integrate a complete rules engine into ofbiz
Drools was suggested sometimes
* Version control for release branches. Are they plans to do more frequent
releases? The current download of the nightly build is misleading as user
think it is a stable release build but it is really just the nightly build
from the trunk.
I guess this is because we pusch to use the trunk ;o)
Brett
