Some users have had other experiences, it's why Paul posted this comment (we exchanged on it).
Not everybody is able to separate the good from the less good. I can't officially confirm which follows since it did not happen to me. But for instance, if someone without much OFBiz knowledge picks BigFish for you. Because it has a better looking, but finally it's not quite suited for the work at hand. Then it can be a bad experience. This might also depends on versions you use. I guess newer are better, but again, I can't confirm. This already happened with previous forks. Note here that I don't know if we can really call BigFish a fork. Since I never worked with it and it seems to follow OFBiz, not the trunk though. Without speaking about Opentaps, Neogia for instance got even itself in trouble (and some projects which followed its 1st version) and had to change its strategy. With Neogia addons, it seems you have now the best of both worlds. Though I never worked on a project with them, just tested simple cases. My opinion: better working straight ahead from OFBiz (releases or trunk). And maybe, as you said Skip, pick here and there good ideas, and even code (addons seems safer), but no rely on external whole code (repositories or releases). My 2cts so far Jacques ----- Original Message ----- From: "Skip" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:19 PM Subject: RE: BigFish Promotions >I am loath to get involved in this, but I for one want to thank Nick and >company for their highly useful contributions which have been freely provided. > > Thanks Nick > > Skip > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Piper [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: BigFish Promotions > > > Perhaps to not further derail from poor Vitthals post > (http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Formal-Discussion-td4643139.html): > > I have no problem with people advertising their own work - in fact, up to a > certain degree it helps the community. However, I think that the constant > promotion of BigFish has crossed the mark quite a bit and has come to the > point where every new member is getting greeted by a bigfish welcoming > message. > > I am not trying to bash anybody’s work here, but merely pointing out that > the implementation of Bigfish is far from complete. It isn’t a simple > labeling factor either – it simply isn’t done in full. When a product > doesn’t deliver what it is supposed to do, it is false advertisement. > > Again, I have no problems with anybody promoting its own work, but I also > don’t want people thinking that Bigfish = OFBiz, when in fact it is far from > it. A quick search on nabble reveals that there have been 242 references > towards bigfish, the majority being promotional. Sorry, but that isn’t > “rarely responding with BigFish examples” in my eye. So perhaps this can be > limited somehow? > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/BigFish-Promotions-tp4643157.html > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
