Thanks Jacopo for your message. It is very helpful. *One more interesting fact that I wanted add on here:* If we talk about year 2005 or 2006 then around 10-20 companies were there in India who were using OFBiz to provide custom solutions to their customers but now the current count is in between 50-100. This count covers small as well as large size organization. OFBiz is growing very fast in India itself and I am sure growing pretty well in the whole world. Thanks!
-- Kind Regards, Ashish Vijaywargiya On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Jacopo Cappellato < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > In September 2007 the PMC Chair of our project reported to the board of > the > > ASF the following numbers regarding subscription to the projects mailing > > lists: > > > > - user@ofbiz: 515 > > - dev@ofbiz: 380 > > - commits@offbiz: 100 > > > > In March of 2010 the PMC Chair reported the following numbers: > > > > - user@ofbiz: 718 > > - dev@ofbiz: 466 > > - commits:@ofbiz: 218 > > > > These numbers show significant increases from 2007 to 2010 across all > > mailing lists, and indicate that we may have a healthy project. > > But how are the numbers these days? Are they still rising, or are they on > > the decline? > > Pierre, why are you asking these questions to the user list? > Please clarify to the community your motivations and the reasons for your > continued attempts to discredit such an healthy project. > > Your attempts to imply that the project is not healthy (and I apologize if > I am mis-interpreting your intentions) are completely baseless and > misleading for newcomers. > > However, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to share with the > community a few useful information on this topic. > > The project is still very healthy from all point of views and even if it > has a large and mature codebase there is still a lot of activity going on > (and even if it will ever decrease it would not be a bad signal per se). > Also, I disagree that the number of subscribers are a good indication of > project growth, nor the number of commits or similar. > In the past, without the help of the mailing list it was mostly impossible > to deploy successfully OFBiz. Now it is possible and easy because the > product has matured and we have a good release strategy. There are also > several alternative (to the mailing lists) channels to share information > about OFBiz (external mail archives, LinkedIn and other social media, > stackoverflow): this was not true in the past. > One thing didn't change since then: even in 2007 (and before and after) we > had people complaining about the health of the project and forecasting > obscure future for the project. > > I am saying that the project is healthy for a number of reasons: > * because there are every day new companies/groups/individuals interested > in OFBiz, that select OFBiz after comparing it with other open source and > legacy products (we have a direct experience of this at HotWax Media, the > company I work for, but I am sure that you and others can confirm the same > trend) > * because the project is still keeping the framework updated (new Tomcat, > Freemarker, Log4j, DBCP2, etc...) > * because we are improving the framework and applications > * because we have now a steady rate of releases (this was not true in 2007 > and in 2010): I know of several users that didn't subscribe to the mailing > lists but just downloaded OFBiz and, following the documentation, were able > to deploy a project. > > For completeness, here are the stats about mailing list subscriptions at > today: > > user: 892 > dev: 545 > commits: 255 > > Now let's all go back to work and to make OFBiz an even better product. > > Kind regards, > > Jacopo
