On Nov 12, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Christopher Snow wrote: > So it's the chicken-and-egg situtation?
Well, this is true in some ways: the OFBiz user/contributor base is growing every day but apparently the critical mass that will allow it to maintain and implement a good release plan is still not reached. Keep in mind that OFBiz is a big beast and that is why we need a pretty big base: other smaller projects have a better life dealing with releases if their communities are way smaller then the one of OFBiz. > 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. Well, this is not true: the user/contributor base is steadily growing and this means that, despite of the lack of a well supported release plan, OFBiz is attracting new users everyday. Kind regards, Jacopo > > > 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 >>>> >>> >> >
