Hello, I've been reading quite a bit about OFBiz and am interested in using it to build some business applications. The project appears under active development with recent releases, however, I'm a little concerned about the lack of community updates and stale documentation. Here are some examples:
The latest "news", i.e. social media and blog posts, are from 2019. All the "useful" OFBiz books were published in the 2008-2013 range The confluence site is a web of confusion. For example >From the home page at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Home The "Getting Started" link at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Apache+OFBiz+Getting+Started is in the confluence "Trash" as seen in the breadcrumb. On the "Getting Started" page is a blurb that says > This document has been moved to the OFBiz website: > http://ofbiz.apache.org/apache-ofbiz-getting-started.html Clicking that link gives a 404 Another example: The "How to articles" page at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How-to+articles Has a number of recent updates (which I read and followed perfectly), but they are in the confluence "Wiki Attic" breadcrumb. Which is confusing. Here is the most recent example: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+install+OFBiz+with+the+Demo+Data Release Concerns 17.12.04 was just released, but I saw in a commit log reference to an 18.12 release. I can't find anything related to it, other than a few posts to the user mailing list from July 2019. What happened to the 18.12 release? I do believe that OFBiz can be a great backbone for my business applications, but I have the following concerns: - It will be difficult for developers to get acclimated to the project based on the documentation and books as described above. - With no recent "news" the project is stagnating and losing momentum - The latest point release is from two weeks ago, but the major release was from 2017 Based on these, I'm concerned about hitching my wagon to the project. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance -Jeff
