[Vtigercrm-developers] Things we can learn from Zurmo CRM

[socialboostdk]

100% Valid point, and I've considered the exact same elements myself.


On 23 October 2013 22:21, Adam Heinz <amh at metricwise.net> wrote:

> Has anybody else looked at these guys?  They don't seem to have existed
> when I started this job "Zurmo Release 0.5.1 – November 7th 2011" [1].
>  They seem pretty vanilla, but they do a few things right that I like, some
> of which I have advocated for vtiger in the past.
>
> * TDD + Continuous Integration [2]  Check out all the build boxes they
> have running in various configurations.  Windows IIS vs Linux Apache,
> Memcache on/off, etc etc.  We've actually gone to the effort here of
> building up an SeBuilder + PHPUnit + Bamboo test environment and are moving
> towards TDD irrespective of vtiger.
>
> * Community involvement [3]  They recruit contributors into development
> teams based on their expertise.  Looking at their BitBucket feed [4], they
> are actively engaged with these people as well.  In the narrow time frame I
> glanced at, I saw a third party developer submit a pull request [5] for
> some SIP changes, get constructive criticism seven hours later, and it
> looks likely that his pull request will be accepted!  I am genuinely
> excited on behalf of that guy!
>
> * Framework utilization [6]  Their about page lists jQuery, Yii Framework,
> and RedBeanPHP as their JS, MVC and ORM libraries.  Smaller codebase =
> faster development.  I'm a big believer in off-the-shelving everything
> except the secret sauce.
>
> [1] http://zurmo.org/roadmap
> [2] http://build.zurmo.com/
> [3] http://zurmo.org/get-involved
> [4] https://bitbucket.org/zurmo/zurmo
> [5]
> https://bitbucket.org/zurmo/zurmo/pull-request/473/modifications-needed-for-onsip-module/activity
> [6] http://zurmo.org/about
>
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