No one is suggesting using JIRA as part of OFBiz. (As Jacques points out
parts of OFBiz are used in JIRA as a development framework.)
The suggestion was to use JIRA as an issue tracking system to help
manage the Workflow project.
The suggested technical base for Workflow is Activiti (read the start of
this conversation at the end of this page).
Your suggestions about SugarCRM and WordPress are in the right direction
but these use underlying technologies (PHP) that are not easy to
integrate into a java project.
Your comments about not "reinventing the wheel" are spot on but if you
contribute to the Workflow Project, you will have a chance to see how
easy it is to integrate two products(OFBiz and Activiti) which may have
completely different frameworks under the business layer.
Ron
On 19/09/2014 12:20 PM, Ted Byers wrote:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Ron Wheeler
<[email protected]> wrote:
They are suggesting that you will use the one that OFBiz already has for
that purpose.
Nothing new to do. Just create the module identification and then the issues
that you need in order to define the work on the Workflow project.
I am suggesting nothing of the sort. Rather, I am just curious as to
who pays for the use of this particular commercial product. And, I am
curious as to what open source alternatives exist and how they
compare.
As a software engineer, I HATE reinventing the wheel. Thus, if I were
involved in OFBiz much earlier in its development, I would have
suggested facilitating use of it WITH SugarCRM (or it's competitor,
whose name I have quite forgotten at the moment), instead of
developing a whole new contact management system within OFBiz, and for
content management, I would have suggested facilitating use of OFBiz
WITH Wordpress, again instead of developing a whole new content
management system. But then, if the available options for particular
tasks is deemed wanting for whatever reason, I'd have no objection to
the development of new code, either to try to use these (obviously
open source) products while adding code to address perceived
deficiencies or to create a competitor de novo (there are sometimes
good reasons for doing this too).
But, in this present context, I am only interested in the cost of the
present practice, and who pays, and the decision making process that
led to use of jira instead of the alternatives (if there are viable
alternatives). Understanding this may well inform my own decisions in
the not too distant future.
I am not, at present, interested in recommending changing anything,
especially if those who are actually doing the work are happy with
what is presently in place.
Cheers
Ted
Rn
On 19/09/2014 11:34 AM, Ted Byers wrote:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Adrian Crum
<[email protected]> wrote:
Typically, this sort of thing is done in Jira - which provides a set of
collaboration tools and a means for voting on the change.
Jira is proprietary; so who pays for it? Or, is it free for open
source projects, non-profit organizations or educational institutions?
Is there not an open source equivalent?
Cheers
Ted
Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com
On 9/19/2014 2:17 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
I would suggest an virtual meeting as an alternative so that the team
can decide on scope, initial tasks, priorities and project management
structure.
This should be followed by a note to the ML summarizing the discussion
and decisions taken and could include an invitation to others to
participate.
This might save several weeks of dancing on the ML.
Ron
On 19/09/2014 8:00 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:
Varun044,
The path is to work together with the contributors who pledged their
willingness to work on this. These are:
- Hans Bakker
- Mohd Viqar
- Rong Nguyen
The best place to do this is discuss it in this mailing list.
Regards,
Pierre Smits
*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:54 PM, varun044 <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks you for the prompt reply Pierre.
So, if I have to implement workflow in ofbiz now, which is the best
path?
Should I check into Activiti?
If you have some resources on the same, kindly share.
Thanks again!
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