Unrelated: +1 thread hijack :P
Back to the discussed matter:
As a programmer, I'd be interested to know more about how I can help.
I'm not really used to open-source projects, but I'm going to have to
implement this solution for my company. Which is why I want to find
other Canadian (preferably Quebec) users, and lend a hand if possible.
What would I need to know to participate?
Olivier
Le 2009-11-12 à 06:20, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :
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
