[Vtigercrm-developers] Missing Database Fields in VT8.3 fresh install

[Tom Brown]

Agreed.

I believe a lot of us want to contribute, however we can not do that
without the sufficient resources/involvement from Vtiger.

In addition, it is difficult to contribute NEW features without making the
code more complicated. The most basic use case was explained by Ruben #1678
- Improvement of uitypes creation
<https://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/-/issues/1678> and it's been a
minute since then.

Back in 2022, the community was getting impatient and Sreenivas Kanumuru
got involved too. Ref:
http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-developers/2022-July/040819.html
I feel like we are approaching the same point again.

Prasad is and has been our hero, but heroes are in high demand. Given
Prasad's seniority at Vtiger, I'm sure he has higher priorities and
something has to give. It is a tough problem to have. That being
said, @Prasad  - are there any plans to allocate more resources to the
open-source? Is that even feasible?

Thanks




On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM Rubén A. Estrada Orozco <rulotec1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree, it's not Prasad's fault  and that's clear.
>
> But I think the Open source version is just being updated to comply with
> newer php versions so that it keeps being installed in shared hosting
> accounts (cpanel). There's been hardly improvements or new features. Each
> new version corrects bugs but introduces new ones. jquery is totally
> obsolete now and so are many other libraries used by Vtiger. The coding
> standards are low: functions that are  hundreds of lines long, duplicate
> code, no tests and no style standards. Still, I'm grateful for vtiger's
> existence and I'm willing to contribute (I already do) but sometimes it
> gets frustrating.
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM Vincenzo Bruno <v.bruno at vinsoft.it> wrote:
>
>> I think we are al little bit OT, but I threw the stone...
>>
>> I don't agree on this.
>>
>> Switching on composer, switching on PHP 8.x and avoiding Deprecated
>> messages where huge tasks and community pushed hardly for them.
>>
>> Prasad is quite responsive lately and this is positive!
>>
>> Maybe a single person cannot maintain a big project like Vtiger, I don't
>> know how many of them are on the Community edition. I don't even know how
>> community can contribute more, besides sending Issues and MR. There are 516
>> open issues, maybe Prasad needs help. Maybe Prasad  should ask some help
>> from community.
>>
>> I hove I have started a constructive discussion.
>>
>> Vincenzo
>> Il 03/04/25 19:17, Rubén A. Estrada Orozco ha scritto:
>>
>> I agree, there's too many bugs. To me, it looked like they were just
>> blindly trying to be php8.2 compatible making code adaptations without
>> testing. I guess Vtiger trusts us to report the bugs introduced in each new
>> version.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM Vincenzo Bruno <v.bruno at vinsoft.it> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear community,
>>>
>>> A lot of headache configuring IMAP client in VT 8.3.0, then figuring out
>>> fields are missing in DB.
>>>
>>> The problem arises only in fresh installs, not in upgraded install.
>>>
>>> The fields are added in migration script:
>>> modules/Migration/schema/820_to_830.php
>>> but are missing in database schema: schema/DatabaseSchema.xml
>>>
>>> In order to quickly fix a fresh install of VT 8.3.0 we can manually run
>>> the code of 820_to_830.php script
>>>
>>> PS: Today I find a similar Issue was opened 1 month ago
>>> https://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/-/issues/1950
>>>
>>> PPS: VT 8.3.0 is so buggy it must be retired from download or a bugfix
>>> version 8.3.1 should be urgently released
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Vincenzo Bruno
>>> Coopyleft - www.coopyleft.it
>>> tel: 3287252923
>>> Digital Polis (www.digitalpolis.it)
>>> Hacklab Cosenza (www.hlcs.it)
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Vincenzo Bruno
>> Coopyleft - www.coopyleft.it
>> tel: 3287252923
>> Digital Polis (www.digitalpolis.it)
>> Hacklab Cosenza (www.hlcs.it)
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>
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