Sakthi,
Our process is fairly rigorous internally in that we have daily builds
from SVN, and our QA team are constantly testing new features and
performing regression testing. You may be interested to know that we
have fairly complete specs for all functionality both on the eCommerce
side and for the Admin Module. It's quite a formal process from start to
finish.
That said, and as proud as we are of our process, we're not quite at the
point of having "certified branches" that we release to the
http://bigfish.salmonllc.com demo area. It's simply a matter of too many
tasks in the queue, and various implementation and delivery pressures
for our client releases.
When we release to bigfish.salmonllc.com I would say that this is
/fairly /stable user release. It typically is to illustrate new
functionality and is a copy from one of our QA servers. When the
development frenzy calms down we'll be in a better position to have
"stable user" and "dev" versions of the code base available. We're not
there yet ....
To answer your specific question "Would you recommend downloads
available from your website <currently Bigfish-eCommerce-v0.2> as
Production ready " I wouldn't be so brave to certify this code base as
"production ready" but it's pretty close and should be relatively
bug-free. Feel free to report any issues and we'll take care of them.
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
[email protected]
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C: 516.901.1720
On 4/10/2012 9:46 AM, Integrin wrote:
Understood; Thanks Nick, for prompt response;
Would you recommend downloads available from your website<currently
Bigfish-eCommerce-v0.2> as Production ready; in other words do you
intend to keep separate copies
- Latest copy for devs
- Stable copy for users
or otherwise.
- Regards
Sakthi
On 4/10/12, Nick Rosser<[email protected]> wrote:
Absolutely.
The Admin Module is intended to provide business users with an
easy-to-use interface so they can manage their eCommerce business.
Maintain content, catalog, orders, customers, etc. without having to
jump through hoops using OFBiz OOTB (which was never really intended to
be used by business users).
Our high-level approach has been to "expose" various features of the
OFBiz OOTB back-end into the BigFish Admin Module one at a time. We're
constantly exposing new functionality and enhancing the BigFish Admin
Module.
On our website http://bigfish.salmonllc.com (DEMO tab) you'll see for
each demo instance that we also have a link to access the OFBiz OOTB
interface. The intent here is to illustrate that everything fits into
the OFBiz model. You can use the Admin Module to easily manage your
data, but in a crunch, and if you have the knowledge, you can always
jump into OFBiz OOTB and really see what's going on. We do this all the
time to double-check that the Admin Module functionality is working
correctly.
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
[email protected]
O: 516.742.7888 x221
C: 516.901.1720
On 4/10/2012 6:33 AM, Integrin wrote:
Nick - Your efforts with Bigfish and your intent to contribute back to
ofbiz with ASLv2 are highly appreciable; Thankyou
Understood that Bigfish has Admin module of its own, however, Do you
intend to keep Bigfish eCommerce compatible with Ofbiz Management
Applications<Order Manager, Catalog Manager>; in other words, is it
possible to use Bigfish eCommerce along with Ofbiz Manager
applications<of a particular version>
Appreciate the great efforts again!
-Regards
Sakthi
On 4/10/12, Scott Gray<[email protected]> wrote:
Awesome thanks Nick.
By "re-used" I meant the possibility of any code that has been borrowed
or
used as a basis for your code that may be incompatibly licensed. If you
don't think there is any then that's fine, I just wanted to mention it as
something we'll have to check for regardless if anything was to move into
OFBiz proper.
Thanks
Scott
On 10/04/2012, at 2:07 PM, Nick Rosser wrote:
Scott,
Np. We'll update this all tomorrow. Not sure what you mean by 're-used'.
Anyway, I don't believe there is anything that is not suitable for
aslv2.
More tomorrow when we've made the changes.
Best regards,
Nick Rosser
[email protected]
516.901.1720
Sent from my iPad
On Apr 9, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Scott Gray<[email protected]>
wrote:
That's great Nick, if you could consider putting a license notice in
the
distribution and perhaps a mention of it on the website then I think
we'll be in a good spot.
Also if you've re-used any code that isn't suitable for distribution
under the ASLv2 it would be helpful to us if you could call that out in
the license notice as well.
Thanks!
Scott
On 7/04/2012, at 11:42 PM, Nick Rosser wrote:
Yes
Nick
C: 516.901.1720
[email protected]
On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:29 AM, Jacopo Cappellato
<[email protected]> wrote:
Do you mean Apache License, v2.0?
Jacopo
On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:25 PM, Nick Rosser wrote:
Apache open license. Interested in your thoughts.
Nick
C: 516.901.1720
[email protected]
On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Scott Gray<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Nick,
Any progress on the licensing situation for the project? As an
OFBiz
committer I can't really look at your code without fear of tainting
my open source work until I know what the license is.
Regards
Scott
On 30/03/2012, at 4:19 AM, Nick Rosser wrote:
OFBiz users,
Over the last 2 months we've made many changes to our
OFBiz/BigFish
platform. The latest is available at http://bigfish.salmonllc.com.
In particular, click on "Demo" and check out the Fashion-House and
Electronic-Store demos (both the eComm implementation and the
Admin
Module).
Highlights:
* many enhancements, bug fixes
* A "content library"
o a container for generic content that can be re-used within any
other content
* Multi Currency
o The Electronic Store demo is focused on the India market
(Rupees)
o eComm and Admin module will honor the setting
* Guest Checkout
o set a parameter and guest checkout is enabled
* pick-up-in-store
o ties the check-out process to the store-locator
o configure to also take payment or collect monies later
o dashboard in Admin module changed to separate online orders with
pick-in-store orde
* PLP (Product Listing Page) content spots
o allow for a content spot at the top of the page; bottom of the
page; in the facet panel (top or bottom)
o by category
We are finishing up some interesting enhancements that will be
available within the next 1-2 weeks, specifically:
* "variant" processing, example:
o fashion house demo
o click on apparel / blouses
o see color "swatches", click on it and you see the appropriate
image
o click on "beige-tan" on the facets and the beige-tan variant
image is displayed
o same for PDP (Product Detail Page)
* Home Page "carousel"
o user managed content that can be displayed in a flexible
rotating "carousel"
o the implementation is designed as such that any content can use
the carousel display
* Mega Menus
o the ability to override the standard BF drop-down from the main
navigation bar
o and have a "mega menu" display
o Fashion-House demo will illustrate this shortly
As always, feedback always welcome. Thanks.
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
[email protected]
O: 516.742.7888 x221
C: 516.901.1720
