[Vtigercrm-developers] Roadmap 6.5 and 7

[Ranieri]

Hi Alan. Thanks for your response!

See'm thinking of a general way, not under the specifc module search, okay?

The initial version 6, lost this global search, but other features such as
creating a dashboard for the report, graphic, at the beginning was not the
manager pbx, features that were introduced later.

In the meantime, it should be licensed to third parties. Remember I am
commenting in general ...

When I commented on the add on, I have in mind, I do not know if it is
correct, that there are more than 10,000 Vtiger installation on the world,
is right?

And I'm talking 5 to 10 users on a system.

We have also more than once, we had problems in add ons that are developed
and then the developer himself abandons its evolution, is too bad.

I agree with you that it is good to have access to the source is the basis
of everything.

What I suggested a way to reduce the gap of patches and features that are
the version on demand for open source, is  core of vtiger team could also
provide these features, even if paid, is an idea only.

Ranieri

2016-04-27 6:08 GMT-03:00 Alan Bell <alan.bell at libertus.co.uk>:

>
> On 26/04/16 13:53, Ranieri wrote:
>
>> I do not know if the model is wrong, but needs some adjustments in my
>> opinion
>>
>> 1) Remove basic functionality of the system core and turn into paid
>> plugins makes no sense.
>>
> not sure that has happened (at least not intentionally) - search was
> *always* broken. It used to find lots of stuff very slowly. In 6.x search
> was changed so it quickly doesn't find stuff. That wasn't exactly removing
> a feature, it was changing the problem. There are a few other feature
> removals such as putting report graphs on the home page, these are things
> that were not re-implemented in the transition to 6.
>
>
>> 2) Price of add ons. If you have a funcionallidade US 25, US 50 is
>> reasonable, because for a reasonably functional core version is necessary
>> today 5 to 10 add ons. But Add Ons US 200, US 400 make it impossible,
>> imagine a 10 add ons package would cost US 4000!
>>
>> Example functional WebMail, EUR 199, EUR 400 or check duplicates, format
>> fields for EUR 99, too expensive ( for me, at  Brazil .. )
>>
> out of curiosity roughly how many users do you have on the system?
>
>>
>> 3) Having to license the modules with each new version. Hard to imagine
>> you license the module in version 6.4, a month later leaves a hits package
>> just like 6.5 and you have to license all over again?
>>
> nope, pretty sure it doesn't work like that, we publish updates and people
> get upgrade buttons when the next version is republished in the store (it
> doesn't tell you that there is an update, which we have been discussing
> with the vtiger team, but they are there if you go look for them). It might
> be the case that one day we need to do two separate packages with different
> version compatibility if there is a transition as big as 5.x to 6.x again,
> but for most releases things carry on working (I am confident that things
> will carry on working for 6.5).
>
>>
>> I take as an example the Apple app store for Macbook, you have updates to
>> the operating system for US $ 40, other free
>>
> for a single user. If you have 50 people in the company that would be
> $2000. The modules are a perpetual site license for unlimited users and it
> is a business sale, not a mass market consumer thing.
>
>>
>> I think the core team Vtiger could charge US $ 49 for a new updated core,
>> for example, why not?
>>
>> The community could provide add ons without cost or equals values.
>>
> personally I am keen on the source always being available, we *never*
> obfuscate the source and I have put a few on github which are also sold for
> money in the store (some are on our internal git system but mainly because
> it is more convenient for us) I kind of like the concept that you can get
> the development source if you want, and zip it up and install it - and if
> it breaks you own all the pieces. You can also get it more conveniently
> from the store and we will help you if you have a problem with it, you are
> paying for convenience and support.
>
>>
>> So the wheel turns, everyone wins and is accessible to most companies.
>>
>> Note that in Brazil, only the conversion of the exchange, makes the
>> values ​​are multiply for 4 and more taxes.
>>
>> Ranieri
>>
>
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