OK. vtigercrm-5.0.3 is released, now what?
June 6th, 2007 by Richie
Okay!
vtigercrm-5.0.3 is released. Now what is the next step?
Right now, this week we are trying to set our house in order and see what all infrastructural issues that we faced during the release. We are cleaning up the trac and responding to the forum posts. There will be a team-meeting that will discuss this in detail. I hope to have this exercise completed this week or at the least by the end of next week.
The best part about the 5.0.3 forum post-issues is that most of the issues that have been reported are because of incompatible distros and setups. This includes even the migration issues. We have not been able to reproduce most of the issues mentioned in the forums in our distros. This is good as Mickie had put in lots of efforts to ensure that we take in all the learnings from our previous releases for the 5.0.3. For those who are following the setup advised by us, vtigercrm-5.0.3 should sing!
We are getting quite a lot of business deals and proposals and Don is totally submerged in them! So this takes care of him 
This release brought to light the importance of test-cases and automated testing. Minnie is tasked with the testcase planning stuff.
PHP-5.2 is another immediate area that we are to focus on starting next week. Gopal is making me believe that the wiki entries stating the corrections needed to support php-5.2 is enabling world-peace by making vtigercrm-5.0.3 compliant with the said php version. If so, I am a happy man.
Right now the attention is towards deployment-related stuff. vtigercrm-5.0.3 is specifically tested keeping that particular scenario in mind. So this is a pet area of mine.
Business is heating up and the long wait seems worth it! The downloads too are doing well. We are seeing the counts tending towards 2K a day or so. This has the average increased by around 400. Hope that we set new records in download.
vtiger is also nominated for sf.net community choice awards in the Enterprise and Finance category. We had got nominated last time too. Hope this time around we steal the thunder!
Go vtigercrm-5.0.3!
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Richie, thank you for sharing with us your new live after the release.
I can confirm that your release works as expected provided you have the environment setup properly. That gives all of use some comfort and more time to turn to business issues.
If you have some time left I would like to bring your attention back to the issue of contributions. It would be great if you could evaluate the content of SourceForge having the new release in mind. Let us know what you can recommend, appreciate the contributors and perhaps create a new platform where working contributions for the new release can get presented.
Good work Richie!
It’s been a long journey but finaly you have reach.
Now you’ve got a quite good starting point, 5.0.3 is a stable release that can give you some tranquility on development, time to think wich will be your next step.
As I’ve said many times, I think the next step is modularization, time to make development easier form community, that permits vtiger team develop just the core, having in mind where the tiger must go, and not carring it.
Joomla is a good mirror where look on.
Well done, and think about it.
Sorry but I disagree. Maybe your distro is so magic that Vtiger runs at your home, but in our classical Debian, the software doesn’t work.
On the same web server 5.0.2 runs better than 5.0.3, we run hundreds of sites with Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, Gallery and so on, so I can only think that there is really some big problem to solve in 5.0.3, and it is not in my or our distro…
I hope you will solve this situation quickly because you know better than me how long we have waited for a stable version.
If you are thinking about a ‘PHP 5 requirement’ you should plan it for a future 6th release, now we just need a 5.x stable release, at least as stable as 5.0.2 and 5.0.1 was, surely not worse.
I completly agree with Rasomu !
I’ve made some good modules for vtiger but I cannot distribute them because too many modifications are needed in the cores files.
And now when I’ll upgrade to 5.03 I will have to reopen all theses core files and apply the same modifications to them.
I did not yet upgrade to 5.03 because I know I’ll have all this work to do.
Thanks again for this great software !
I have to say that it is really sad to see Vtiger 5.03 will only work on PHP 5.
Looks like I’m stuck on 5.01 as it works on PHP 4.4.6 and 4.4.7
Philip, good work in 5.0.3.
Congratulations to all team.
Tanks.
Yes, please support the developer platform. Great job on this release, btw.
Hi,
I also agree that modularity is the next move to make.
I am actually working on a new module, and I realize that it is a very fastidious work which could and should be simplyfied to give a real dynamic to vTiger.
Now, what is the role of community? Debuging mainly, developing isn’t as important simply because each new version you get out, all the developers will have to change again there code…
You should create a Modularity project, assign one or several members of your team, create a mini community around it and assign people to roles so we can go further in an efficient way.
I also believe that Joe Bordes proposal about modularity is very interesting, and it is a huge mistake to let on side this kind of qualified person.
Sincerely, if you really want the community to work with the vTiger team, modularity is a MUST, else we will only be able to follow, not participate.
I also agree with Balduin, a new plateform is needed to clarify everything.
All business oriented info. stay in the actual plateform and a new vTiger community plateform independent(visually) should be created. That way, things will be more structured.
It’s “Split to better reign” solution
Regards,
Clem
I also have some modules to contribute. However they are much too difficult to install since they require quite a few changes across the entire codebase. Moving toward modularity should, in my opinion, be one of the highest priorities in the development to come. It would allow for people to contribute their code in a way that would not be wasting their time.
I have to agree, personally I believe that the success of Joomla can be attributed largely to the modularity.
There is no single product that can do everything that any company can possibly ever require. Users need the freedom to add and remove modules, to test individual modules to see if they meet the requirements, and most importantly of all: to bring their chosen modules to the new system whenever a new version of the core system is released.
Without this, the product borders on being a proprietary solution that can only truly service the needs of a few corporations.
As a system administrator, I do not relish the thought of spending days at a time hacking the core system to allow the functionality that the users need, every time a new patch or version is made available, or every time I wish to test a new module.
I also agree with the above comment: Look to Joomla for your solution. The modularity of Joomla, coupled with the open-source ethos has led to it being adopted as widely as it has, and if you were to achieve the same modularity, I do not doubt that vTiger could become the #1 CRM system, period.