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

[mail at dvoges.de]

Hello Richard,

thanks for being with me. I wondor who is Mr. VTiger?

Hello all,

Following http://trac.vtiger.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
there is the next link "?Read through the developer resources ":  
http://trac.vtiger.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/vtigerCRMDeveloperResources
and finally a link to the "Developer Guide":  
http://wiki.vtiger.com/index.php/vtiger520:Developer_Guide
and there you can read:
Vtiger520:Developer Guide
There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page  
title in other pages, or search the related logs.

Does this mean VTiger is a closed development?

I can live with that, please give me a price list so I can consider  
working with VTiger like every other Software which is owned by a  
company.

In other words, I think it is useful to know the answers to the  
following questions before I join the community:
- Who is the "Community"?
- How is the community organized?
- Is there a list of the members?
- Can I see the interests or the reason why the people or companies  
are in the community?

Greetings, Detlef




Zitat von Richard Hills - TechnologyWise <richard at tw.co.nz>:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Richard Hills - TechnologyWise  
>> <richard at tw.co.nz <mailto: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 <http://vtiger.com>?
>>
>>
>>
>>    On 19/09/12 21:13, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>>    > On 19/09/12 10:06, mail at dvoges.de <mailto: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
>>    <http://www.vtiger.com> and www.vtiger.de <http://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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