This post is to state my understanding of the importance of the 5.0.3 release.
This is a period where vtiger cannot afford to introduce any new issues or create a newer user experience. By doing so, vtiger runs the risk of turning away or further delay the adoption of vtiger.
Right now, vtiger does not want any revolutions in it but evolutions (correct me if I am wrong on this), it needs percentage-improvements. vtiger needs to provide a seamless experience now, a continuous flow. Though I believe that the product can be made more usable/useful; much more ‘Whole/Complete’, but this is not the right time to introduce those features. vtiger must make you win your customers and not introduce new features/learning curves for them in this release. It is important that vtiger becomes a standard rather than ‘the-state-of-the-art’ now. All the not-to-do list, will be taken up in the next major release say 5.1.
To do these evolutions, I need your help. We will be putting forth an updated status plan of the 5.0.3 release and I want you all to please put in your views on it. This will help us to get a consolidated and funneled view of the release.
So, what we are doing is to have the product tested and re-tested till we ie you and the vtiger team are satisfied with the product and ONLY then give it out for deployment.
- Download it, install it and forget it!
- Upgrade it and forget it!
should be the motto for 5.0.3 and I know it is not that difficult to achieve. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, yeah, I know that. But then, the foreknowledge helps me to prepare harder too right?
I am a techie and my immediate itch is to have some newer feature into the product which I think will make life better. Believe me, I am controlling that itch and let me tell you(Frank, I know you are reading this) it is damn difficult to do it!
I do not claim to be perfect but I am willing to learn and you have to help me do it.
Let us know what you feel and how we should proceed from here. I will be posting the updated status plan shortly.
