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

[Sreenivas Kanumuru]

Trac is the best place to submit contributions. vtiger team will be
reviewing the contributions and integrating them after the review process.

what I am missing that I have experienced in other open source projects is
> the communication with core developers and the ability to add to current
> builds, for example I am sure vtiger 6 is being worked on steadily, but I
> have not yet seen anything but some mock ups.


We are afraid of releasing half baked code to the community because then we
will be inundated with questions/reports of issues that we are aware of
while we are also going to be wasting your time. We will be releasing the
alpha version code pretty soon (it got slipped due to some unfinished
tasks). The final version of vtiger 6 is expected to be ready by December
timeframe.

We are certainly looking forward to receiving many contributions from the
community including new layouts & skins (vtiger 6 enables both now) and
extensions. We will be sharing the developer documentation with the alpha
version.

Regards,
Sreenivas

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Richard Hills - TechnologyWise <
richard at tw.co.nz> wrote:

>  You can of course submit code here, I guess you could create your own
> project and keep updating that every time vtiger upgrades, but what I am
> missing that I have experienced in other open source projects is the
> communication with core developers and the ability to add to current
> builds, for example I am sure vtiger 6 is being worked on steadily, but I
> have not yet seen anything but some mock ups.
>
>
> On 19/09/12 22:59, Marian Banica wrote:
>
> What about Trac?
> http://trac.vtiger.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
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>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Richard Hills - TechnologyWise <
> richard at tw.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
>>
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