[Vtigercrm-developers] vtiger current status and call to action

[Rubén A. Estrada Orozco]

It's good to hear you would be OK with handling MRs Alan. I was expecting a
"No time for that" kind of answer.

Prasad, is that something we could aim for?

Saludos

Rubén


On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 4:35 AM Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25/11/2021 19:48, Rubén A. Estrada Orozco wrote:
> > sorry, I didn't mean to upset anybody. I was just giving an honest
> > opinion which (I think) totally relates to the thread. But it's ok, I
> > won't insist.
> >
> > I don't think allowing everybody to merge fixes is a good idea. Maybe 1
> > or 2 volunteers would be a good idea. That person should be
> > knowledgeable and experienced in Vtiger. I would think of Alan Lord for
> > example. But he would need to be willing to do it, which I'm not
> > sure about, since that can take quite some time.
>
>
> lol - I was waiting for my name to crop up :-D
>
> This question/discussion comes up every couple of years or so.
>
> My own take is this... I think we all have to remember that vtiger the
> company doesn't really make any money from the Open Source product.
> (Perhaps they get some cross platform traffic but I suspect not a huge
> amount to be honest).
>
> In terms of activity on code.vtiger.com my *assumption* about what
> happens is probably that most of the time, they have little time to
> dedicate to the open source platform, but once in a while there is, and
> that is when you get lots of merge requests committed and more energy
> applied toward the next release of the Open Source platform.
>
>  From a personal perspective, my business is almost exclusively vtiger
> with customers all over the world- the majority of our income comes from
> developing/extending/integrating the Open Source platform but we also
> have multiple customers using the Cloud service too.
>
> I'd be "OK" with having privileges to commit MRs but unless I was to
> have a good idea about the longer-term strategy for the next release or
> two I would be quite hesitant to be honest.
>
> HTH
>
> Al
>
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