Sorry I missed the Community IRC Meeting today but as I said I already had other meetings previously scheduled. Anyway, I would like to contribute a few comments to the topics:
> 2. Working Together > 2.1. What do you think about Launchpad ? It's ok but I don't think people know how to use it. And we need to give suggestion to Launchpad about better search criteria. These would be very easy for them to implement. > 2.2. Is it clear and easy on how to contribute ? NO! I have had ZERO success at getting good and well-tested modules and patches adopted into the core. My 'account_ifrs' module is enjoying hundreds of downloads and I suggested to Tiny to have this adopted into the core but yet no progress has been made on this. Lately, I submitted patches that enable complete automation of the creation of RPM packages via the 'bdist_rpm' target to setup.py. And additionally, these patches perform all the checks for the 'openerp' server user and group, the database connection params, the database user and db and make the appropriate changes to the config file. This enables a total newbie who is using an RPM-based Linux distro to get OpenERP up and running right away without all the installation torment and pain as we see from all the posts in the Installation forum. But again, it's been over a month since I submitted these patches and NO PROGESS has been made to get these into the trunk. I've also been working with the Python Distutils SIG to get patches for a new comand 'bdist_deb' adopted for Distutils. There is good momentum behind this initiative so it looks like these patches will make it in very soon. And once that is done then I can create the same type of solution for the Debian-based distros. But, again, IS IT EVEN WORTH THE EFFORT WHEN YOU CANNOT GET ANYTHING ACCEPTED INTO THE CORE CODE? > 2.5. Any idea on how to increase the community of Open ERP ? Yes, start by giving the newbie, first-time user, of OpenERP a much better experience. Toward that goal, commit my 'bdist_rpm' patches into the core. These make for a much better installation experience for RPM-bsed distros. And then soon we'll have this for the Debian-based distros as well. And the V4 to V5 migration situation has been a huge turn-off to many in the community. That situation was handled very poorly. The community should have been warned about the difficulties and issues involved many months before V5 was released. > 3.1. Working with Launchpad / Bazaar. Is it clear ? Do you use LP or others ? Bazaar is very good. Launchpad is ok but needs some improvements. I think people do not understand how to use Launchpad. And we should make suggestions to Launchpad to improve the experience. Regards, Gerry -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33048#33048 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
