Users - Community Addons

Posted by cjhowe on Dec 08, 2005; 4:24am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-Community-Addons-tp136664.html

I've been working on a couple of mini apps that dumb down some of the back office stuff. For instance one that allows the user to build a catalog by adding products from a previously created catalog by showing both catalogs on the same screen(useful when you have multiple vendor catalogs in your deployment and want to create your company's catalog by picking which products to include in your categorized makeup).  This of course using as little additional code as possible.

Now would this be beneficial to the OFBiz community, Yes.  Does it belong in the overall project.  Probably not, simply because it duplicates existing catalog app functionality.  It just makes it easier for non techie people to create catalogs when their vendors can supply xml versions of their catalogs.  (Not to mention David and Andy et al have better things to do then try to make sense of my irregular coding habits) I want to share thi! s but have a couple of things standing in the way.

#1 I do not wish to maintain it
#2 I don't want to host the file for download
#3 I don't want someone to be able to license it in a way that I can no longer benefit from my own contributions
#4 I want anyone to be able to use it and change it to suit their needs without reservation
#5 I want the OFBiz project to be able to incorporate it if they so choose without creating headaches if they decide to change to the Apache license.
#6 I want it to solicit the contributions of others in a similar manner (ie not world class additions to Ofbiz, but helpful none the less)

I was thinking something along the lines of what osCommerce's community does.  http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions  but again, I don't want to maintain it lol.   Any suggestions?

I'm also working on dumbed down mini apps for price rules and a quick lookup for what price a! customer has purchased a product for in the past.

 
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