[Vtigercrm-developers] How to extend feature such as Global Search without core modifications ?

[Alan Lord]

I would think the the "right" way to do this is for the original 
developer to create their own repo on gitlab for this particular module 
and then invite other developers to fork and issue pull requests.

You can create as many project repositories as you want I believe. I 
have them for GeoTools, the Thunderbird plugin, an old hack of the 
Customer Portal and a bunch of Language packs. Plus I have a fork of the 
vtiger master branch for working on bugs and submitting merge requests 
back to them etc...

Getting a new module being supplied as standard into the vtiger Open 
Source platform is a different matter altogether. Once it goes into the 
vtiger codebase they (vtiger) will have to take ultimate responsibility 
for maintenance and on-going development.

That's my opinion anyway ;-)

Al


On 16/02/16 06:34, Preexo wrote:
> Hey Aploic,
>
> I see that you integrated the module into a fork of vtiger. I think it would
> be best to take it out of the fork again and start a repository just for the
> module. Then it's more separated and it's easier to contribute without all
> the vtiger code all around it, which is not needed for the module really.
> But I would also appreciate some guidance by the vtiger developers...
> Prasad, Manu, Alan? How should module development be put into the
> code.vtiger.com? As new repositories? Within a vtiger fork? Under the pkg
> directory?