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[quote="pap"]ppppppppppppppppppppp [quote="Guest"]Hello, > The thing that was initially most attractive about OpenERP was the 'Open' > claim, > wever there seems to be a trend towards a more proprietry model of late. > Not at all, why do you say that ? We are trying to be the most open possible and support the most the community. > The forum shows a few very annoyed OpenERP users, and quite a lot of > frustration > s evident, with lots of unanswered questions, dead-end links to > documentation The version 5 has just been released. With this new version, we released a completly new documentation. This documentation has 1500 pages whereas the previous one had, may be, about 200 pages. So, yes, this is a complete change but the new documentation is much more better. And it includes all the pages that where present in previous documentation. One of the frustration was the change to launchpad to manage the official branches and the community ones. Some complained because launchpad is more complex. That's true and that's why we released a community book. We are working on a new community book and tutorial to explain how to work efficiently with Open ERP and Launchpad. Launchpad is developed by Canonical (Ubuntu) and used to manage most open source software: ubuntu, mysql, ... > (three on the very form from which I am submitting this post), and recent > ocumentation which, when compared to a google cached version, appears to > have been stripped of the useful detail. > I have doubt about this. If you can provide links, we will ask documentation maintainers to complete the new one. > I'm left wondering exactly where this product is going to end up, and > hether our hope of being able to take a great product, extend it where > we need to (my company makes a living out of developing open source > software) and contribute back to open and free environment will be a > dead end. > We have 3 goals: * Being the best FULLY open source enterprise management software in the world (I think we already achieved this, but we can do much more better) * Support the community a lot, by providing everything needed in free * Create a strong partner network to offer quality services to customer and to create a market, and answer to the demand This may generates misunderstanding because, sometimes, the community does not understand we also have to setup a commercial service offer. It may also create misunderstanding for some services companies because, some, may not understand why we absolutly want to to everything in open source. That's also why we have 2 websites: one for the customers, openerp (where we speak about services offers, roi, ...), one for the community, openobject. (where we speak about bugs, forum, ...). Mainly because the communication is not the same (but the open source product is the same). These changes in the websites also created some misunderstanding but it's a good point to have a platform dedicated to the community. We are convinced that the best approach to build a successfull product is to provide everything needed by the community AND eth needed by value added services companies. That's because we succeeded to get both that we growed so fastly. -- Fabien Pinckaers _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users[/quote][/quote] -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35172#35172 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
