[Vtigercrm-developers] An Impassioned Plea from a VTiger Integrator

[Matjaz.Slak at atol.si]

Hi!

If there's no one else, I volunteer to be the v4 Linus.

I have the exact same position as a lot of other people wrote about here - 
basically my own fork of v4.2.3, and I'm now working to get my patches 
compatible with v4.2.4 so as to get back to the main trunk. And it's a lot 
of work, which I need to trade with my basic task - which is supporting 
several customers we have on vTiger. I hope I will have my set of patches 
(there might be up to 100 of them, as it's looking right now :) ready in a 
week or so.

I belive we as vTiger Dev team should provide more support for 4.2.x 
stream -> I guess that almost ALL of vTiger's "real world" users use that 
right now. And they might go for v5 when it's stable, but that won't be 
(in my experience) for at least 6 months after it's released.

If you want me, I'm here. Just give me a direction to start in, and I (and 
my three colleagues here) can be reviewing submitted work in no time. And 
discussing it with you the team here to get decissions on include/reject.

Matjaz Slak
matjaz.slak at atol.si

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"Sergio A. Kessler" <sergiokessler at gmail.com> 
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On 7/13/06, Dennis Grant <dgrant at accuratetechnologies.com> wrote:
> > v4.x would not be abandoned while there is people interested in
> > maintaining it, that's all needed in open source, interested and
> > executive people...
> > it can be mantained forever while this condition is met...
>
> Yeah, but is it worth it?

well, up to you  ;-)
(I mean, up to the outside comunity, vtiger core team is heavely focused 
en V5)

> BTW, who is the local Linus?

unfortunely, there is no local linus,
mike fedyk was doing a terrific job on maintaining v4, but then he 
dissapeared,
and then Philip and Allan Bush were trying to help, but I imagine they
are in lack of time...

you can be the linus of v4 if you want...
it's a meritocracy (it's that spelled correctly ?)

>
> I agree - and the best way to do that is to be RESPONSIVE.

the problem is there is NO one that can respond about v4,
the core team is working full on v5...
and v4 has no Linus (at least with enough time)...

/sak
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