Gepostet am:30.07.2009 00:59
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Aw:: Umfrage zur Entwicklung von Modulen
30.07.2009 00:59 Interessante discussion.
May I do it in engliesh.
I would like to memorize the development of the module: AMS.
There was a launch done by the Marcan, who run at that time ithq or something like that:
Everybody who paid some money in advance would get the permission to download this at that time not yet developed module.
After some weeks (or was it months) the module would be free for everybody.
There were several people who paid and Marcan started to work. The module was launched. Threads about this module started, bugs feature requests and so on.
Those who paid, may do feature requests and the further development (read functions and features) of this module would depend on the paid users. Those who didn't pay get the module several weeks (months) later, but cannot do those requests.
Although I liked the idea of this kind of module development and presentation, this project died sooner as I thought. A module left with lots of bugs and disapointed for those who paid. No further enhancement.
This way of module development should certainly not be done with every module. I am sure if you want to kill the open source CMS Xoops, than you should follow that road. Xoops', in my opinion, isnt mature enough.
However if it is a killing module.... that it is fine.
About payment: I do know a lot of time and work gets into module development and enhancement. But sometimes if i see the price of a module it is to expensive for me.
For sometime the shop module Oledrion was a pay module. Now, all of a sudden this module is free. Does this mean the module will not be under further development of the original developer?
Now Catads, originaly a module developed by The Cat has been taken under redevelopment and is a pay module. I ask myself logically for how long?
Fortunately Novasmart took the AMS module in 2007 up and started to enhance and solve bugs of this module. And made it again compatible.
Free, no costs.
Until now I still haven't see a module for which I am ready to pay that lot of money. For sometime I made a donation to some of the developers of modules, but not long after that the development of the specific module stopped. Module out of date, not clever enough to make it compatible myself. As you can imagine, before i make a donation again......
On short:
at this moment I don't think Xoops is mature enough to have modules for which you have to pay. First of is to take care of the basic modules (links, decent forum, downloads, content module) which will run without problems.
Than xoops has to take care that it gets a clear code so module developers no what is possible and not. Without the need to make each time some kind of extra and needed installation of:
framework for their module(s)
smartwork
and how much of these needed extra aren't around at this time.
My 2 cents (as far as it it clear)
