Hello Jeff, Thank you for raising concern over OFBiz and I can assure you we are working on to resolve such problems which are faced by the new adaptors.
There are problems with every project and with the continuously evolving nature of OFBiz, we are trying our best to make it seamless. Every open source project grows with the support of the community and collaborating can sometimes cause a delay. But this is no excuse. We all are working for the betterment of OFBiz. Yes, the documentation is a bit messy but we are already working on to clear the haystack of documentation. With this thread, I would like to ask the team who handles OFBiz social presence to take a look at the raised concern. And we need people like you to join us and help us in reaching OFBiz to its real potential. Thanks & Regards, Devanshu Vyas. On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:54 PM Jeff Schwartz <j...@schwartech.com> wrote: > 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 >
