On 14/02/16 20:45, John Crisp wrote:
The biggest issues currently are
Moving to CentOS 7
New server-manager framework
Move to git
Each of those have sub tasks and pros and cons. Do we build a new server
manager just on CentOS 7 ? Do we build it on CentOS 6, and then migrate
it all to CentOS 7 ? Which framework do we use ? Etc etc etc.
To put things from my own perspective. I have a grand total of 3
businesses using SME. Me, my brother, and one other client. A few years
ago when SME was in the doldrums I had a serious look at other systems,
as I wasn't sure if SME was going to be around for much longer, but in
the end I still stuck with SME. Why?
It is rock solid. One of my systems has been in for 8 years now, and the
only time I've had to touch it is when I changed the hard drives and PSU
on the server 4 years ago. I occasionally get a phonecall about a small
problem, but you can count them on one hand. Both my brother and other
client do not have a techie on site. They don't want to have to go into
*ANY* server manager type interface unless they have absolutely no
alternative - eye candy or no eye candy.
It is easy to set up out of the box. One of the things I didn't like
about all the others were once you did the initial installation you had
to go into their 'server manager', and switch this on, turn this off,
configure this, configure that. Believe it or not, I think the current
S-M is great. Anything you need to do to get going is there, easy to set
up, and can be done in literally a few minutes.
Therefore the top priority for development in my opinion *MUST* be the
move to CentOS 7.
New server manager: As far as I can see the 'core' developers work in
Perl. Unless others are prepared to take on their mantel, then we should
go with what they suggest, and it is for that reason that I suggest we
should go with mojo. Ideally everyone should pull together, I know, but
sometimes the world isn't like that.
The other thing that might be useful in choosing the best path is
knowing, what is SME getting used for? I hear a lot of talk about SME
dying, people moving to other systems etc etc. I have no reason to doubt
this, but until we know *what* people are using SME for, then we are
always going to struggle to know what our top priorities are. From
reading the forums it appears to be being used for small companies of
less than 10 users (my category) right through to big companies of many
hundreds. But how many of each? Is it being used 'on site' or is it now
being used 'on line', like Google, and Office 365?
--
Jim McLaren
Cults Farm
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