Christopher,
> The bundled apps, I believe, are meant to simply be displays of feature
> functionality. Since every business is different and all of the features
> taken together are usually too burdensome for a company to actually use, most
> are creating custom applications based on those features based on the
> specific requirements of a deployment.
Chris is right about that.
> As far as "slow development", new feature sets are added cautiously to avoid
> breaking custom applications that are depending on the feature set.
Development is going carefully enough now. Not as careful as I'm comfortable with, though, so
development really is going ahead quite rapidly far as I can tell.
If you're talking about the OFBiz framework (core), I'd say it's very stable and solid, and that
might explain why there's no rapid progress on that front (not much room for improvement).
If you're ralking about the ERP aspect (non-core) of OFBiz, it's pretty rapid. Might even be too
rapid for your taste! It's usually rapid along the lines where somebody needs specific features
for their work, not necessarily along MY own lines. :)
If you want rapid progress for what you need, you'll probably have to contribute those needed
features yourself.
That said, I must say that I'm benefiting from many core features added by other contributors. For
eg, I'm eagerly awaiting full integration results from Chris Howe for OFBiz + Asterisk!
Jonathon
Chris Howe wrote:
The bundled apps, I believe, are meant to simply be displays of feature
functionality. Since every business is different and all of the
features taken together are usually too burdensome for a company to
actually use, most are creating custom applications based on those
features based on the specific requirements of a deployment.
As far as "slow development", new feature sets are added cautiously to
avoid breaking custom applications that are depending on the feature
set.
If you'd expect things to go faster, what functionality do you see
being neglected?
--- Christopher Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I feel like I'm getting over the learning curve with ofbiz. It's
very
powerful and productive!
However, I'm now confused that if it's so quick to develop, why does
the
application/functionality seem to grow quite slowly? Are most
developers spending their time on improving the framework and not
improving the bundled apps?
Many thanks,
Chris
