Christopher,
Sorry this is maybe a bit a technical answer, but I believe it shows another
mindset
One of the causes, which is maybe hidden for philosophical and pragmatical reasons, is that we (should) always use RTC mode
(Review-Then-Commit)
For more on this apect you could be interested by
http://old.nabble.com/Review-Then-Commit-td26303921.html
To commiters : this does not mean that I'm pushing for CTR mode, only that it's
interesting to see how other communities are doing
and reactions about that ;o)
Jacques
From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[email protected]>
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
