[OFBiz] Users - SSL Setup

[David E. Jones]

On Jan 6, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Adrian Grealish wrote:

> When are you planning a new release? not for the consulting arm for  
> the open source community remember collaboration is the way to  
> success?

You are correct that collaboration is the way to success, but it is  
not true that official releases increase collaboration. In fact, they  
_reduce_ collaboration. OFBiz is still maturing and the limited  
resources are dedicated to development and maintenance of the  
software by various groups with various different, but all  
overlapping, priorities.

The point of the Sequoia project that Si Chen has put together is to  
have a community that is more dedicated to maintaining point releases  
with bug fixes and what not done there and back-patched from the open  
source project. That's the idea anyway...

For OFBiz the only real purpose for a release is: marketing! Users of  
OFBiz who take a release instead of keeping up to date during their  
development process CAN NOT effectively collaborate with the  
community or contribute to the project. They are using older code and  
not updating to get work that others do nor can they base their  
changes on the latest stuff, so it's just impossible to collaborate.  
They can sometimes contribute, but generally not as effectively,  
depending on what it is and how much it has changed since the date of  
the revision they are using.

So, releases aren't a big priority for OFBiz right now. The project  
has gone, and to some extent is still going, through some MAJOR  
additions and until these settle down it doesn't make much sense and  
isn't easy or cheap to do a release (including the necessary testing  
and bug fixing, related marketing artifacts for new features and  
announcements and what not, and so on). Creating a binary is easy,  
that's not the issue, but just a binary isn't a very valuable release  
and is guaranteed to have more problems than we'd like and so it does  
more _harm_ than good...

We are working on becoming an Apache project, though I don't know if  
that will go through or not. If it does we will most likely do a  
release in a few months to push things along there, and mostly for  
marketing purposes to help new people interested in the project get  
an idea of what's up. If they are doing development though and  
customizing OFBiz we will still encourage groups/people to NOT use  
the releases, but rather to keep up with SVN until they are ready to  
start their pre-production integration and user level testing.

> Why can't a user search the mailing lists? I tried codecomments.com  
> but their search doesn't work either.

This simply isn't up yet after the mailing list move though it will  
be up in the future.

As with all things: if it is important enough to you to do something  
about it, then do so! That is how every single little detail in OFBiz  
is handled...

-David
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