[Vtigercrm-developers] Please help - How does the Open Source development works about VTiger?

[Richard Hills - TechnologyWise]

I must say, I have found the group helpful when I have had issues, but I 
have always tried to stay away from trying to add to vtigers code base 
as I did not understand the system in place, which I guess is the same 
as Detlef currently.

How does one "submit code", if I want to push a new feature into the 
system in a manner which is not supported by the current modular build 
for example, surely more needs to be done than just submitting a patch.

What it would be great to know is, where is the proper place for 
discussion of bringing new functionality into the base? Is that simply 
down to the guys from vtiger.com?



On 19/09/12 21:13, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 19/09/12 10:06, mail at dvoges.de wrote:
>> Dear Alan,
>>
>> I write to you, because I see you are very active in the VTiger
>> Development discussions and I don?t want to spam to all developers. Can
>> you help me getting on track with VTiger?
>>
>> As you could see I had two questions in the last days and I am willing
>> to fix this by my own, but I don?t know how to start.
>>
>> The first question about the build-in backup was answered with: ?Do it
>> from extern?. To my second question about individual Email SMTP Hosts I
>> got three answers, 1) Why; 2) It is complicated; 3) Some guys from
>> Romania want to this for money. Beside this, there was an unnecessary
>> discussion about blacklists and spamming with mails.
>>
>> MY MAIN QUESTION IS: How does the Open Source development works about
>> VTiger?
>>
>> There are two large Sites www.vtiger.com and www.vtiger.de but on both
>> sides it seems they only want to sell their services. Is there someone
>> like ?Linus Thorvald? for Linux, who keeps the strings together? I still
>> don?t know how a version is build and how I can add some code from my side.
>>
>> Thanks and greeting from Germany
>>
>> Detlef Voges
>>
>>
>> PS: I see nothing bad about earning money with VTiger, but I don?t find
>> any way to participate.
>
> Submit code and/or start reading the Wiki and asking questions.
>
> I should think most of us on the list make money from vtiger. It is one
> of my company's most active products.
>
> But we also contribute ideas and code back to the community. That's the
> way it works.
>
> Please keep on the mailing list - I don't use this email account for
> anything other than mailing lists.
>
> Alan
>