Thanks Jeff and Devanshu,
About the social media presence, I like to say that there is nothing worse than
an outdated misleading documentation.
I'd venture to say the same for the social media presence. Either we have it or
we remove it.-
This said we are a voluntering community with moving priorities.
Anyway we have already started something again/new for at least the blog during
this conversation, please see
https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/GFCDJ9FNK
Jacques
Le 30/07/2020 à 07:13, Devanshu Vyas a écrit :
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 <[email protected]> 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
