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

Tony Sandman tonysandman999 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 08:36:09 GMT 2021


100% right however democracy not gonna happen (hope I am wrong)

T.

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 3:19 PM Angelo Paglialonga <
info at angelopaglialonga.com> wrote:

> Hi Alan , I think vtiger makes money from the marketplace and from
> partners, every other crm uses partner subscriptions to grow their platform
> , the difference is vtiger chose to split their platform instead of forking
> the same root.
>
> I prefer a more democratic approach , so that multiple developers are able
> to merge requests otherwise requests could be refused arbitrarily by one
> dev potentially for commercial reasons , it’s more wise in my opinion to
> have an open approach.
> What do you think @all?
>
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> Il giorno 26 nov 2021, alle ore 11:33, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com>
> ha scritto:
>
> 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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