From: "Christopher Snow" <[email protected]>
So it's the chicken-and-egg situtation?
No : it's improving and the curve is not exponential nor even quadratic but is more than flat.
Actually this is very clear since we released 9.04
And maybe the new effort which may happend on SME will increase even more this
curve http://markmail.org/thread/whm4uqjhcvwz6pvp
Jacques
There are not enough contributors to focus on making stable releases
and documentation. But without stable releases and documentation, new
contributors are not attracted to ofbiz.
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Yes we need more solid teams, this is improving...
Jacques
From: "Christopher Snow" <[email protected]>
Are you saying that there are now enough contributors to implement a
good release plan?
Many thanks,
Chris
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Christopher Snow wrote:
Ofbiz community seems to be focused on making ofbiz generate as
much consulting revenue as possible and not on making ofbiz a great
shrink wrapped product. For example, end users having to use svn
and patches so to keep their systems up to date is crazy.
I don't think that the focus of the OFBiz community is to make OFBiz
a consulting revenue generator, nor I think that the absence of a
stable recent release is a consequence of this.
The awful truth, imo, is that maintaining a release is expensive (in
terms of man hours) and the time contributed by the users of OFBiz
(i.e. its community made of final users, consultants etc...) until
now has not been enough to have a good release plan.
Jacopo
