Hard Fork, rebrand and new community

[jacksolutions]

Hello easyerp team,

we really like this easyerp product but it seems like you guys are not interested to take it further so me and other community members wants to take it further with a hard fork and rebrand it .

so we will wait for a week or something for the reply from the original author and if they reply and i wish that they should reply positively then that would be great, otherwise we will hardfork it and rebrand it and take it further.

this issue is no offense to any one or the author, we just like this product and want to take it further that is the only motive behind that.

Looking forward for the reply

[hassannet]

Hello
I am interested in this ERP (based on nodejs)
but I see that there is no documentation developer or activity in the forum of originals authors.
If you have the decision to forker and redo it with another simple and maintainable archetecture, I go with you.
Let us know
Thank you

[proffalken]

Hey, did anything ever happen about this @jacksolutions ?
We're looking for an OpenSource ERP right now, and whilst we can't commit development time, we'd be more than happy to act as lab rats for new features and feedback to the community.

I am also interested in the fork as this product looks good but no support from the team.

[Nnanyielugo]

If there's going to be a hard fork, we'll need to change the authentication, and migrate the front-end from backbone to react.

I think I'll be able to commit some developer time if this is taken up.

[proffalken]

@Nnanyielugo I'm not sure why we need to change either in order to fork it, can you explain further please?

For now, if it can be forked, then let's fork it "as is" and worry about how we change things in future in a safe, incremental way once we agree as a community which way we want to take it (for example, I'd love to see the requirement for MongoDB dropped and replaced by something that actually scales beyond 20G storage without losing data during upgrades and is secure by default etc.)

I'm not a JS-dev (I'm Ops/Python/"DevOps"), but I'd be willing to help others with the stewardship of any fork that was created, and ensure that there was a proper CI/CD pipeline in place so people can trust the code base, but I would want to see decisions like "migrating from backbone to react" or "change the authentication layer" being taken as a community after the fork, not as a condition of the fork if that makes sense?

[woakes070048]

I think that it would be worthwhile to start a fork. We have done it with a few projects. The biggest part is getting a community behind it.

The best part of this ERP is it lean

[Nnanyielugo]

@proffalken,

1. The current auth method tightly binds the front end to the back-end, and is unsuitable for a lot of use cases notably, adding a mobile app.

2. The initial load time of the front-end is a painful thing to experience, trust me.

It's not a condition for a fork, more like a suggestion, and if maybe it's discussed perhaps we'll get to agree on something.

[jacksolutions]

so here is the update,

we have already started working on the fork and sad to say that it had a lot of errors which we solved all of them :) so for now this product is ready to use but still lots of features are missing which needs to implement like

=> There is no role based login
=> All the modules has very basic features and requires further development on that
=> Biggest drawback is frontend and backend is tightly tied with each other and some other performance bottleneck
=> not easy to scale it as SAAS model cause you need to restart server every time you create a new tenant due to app.js loads all the connection to database while you initialize a server (which needs to change)
=> its highly depends upon session (no REST API or token based authentication) so it is very difficult to create mobile apps or similar but we have developed mobile apps as well

i would like you guys to suggest a good name for the erp so that i can hardfork it with that name and push all the code there

Lets build a new community and spread the good work :)

I can say OSErp (Open Source ERP) as a name.

[ab-fuze]

Any link?

[hbakhtiyor]

better to use erpnext

[kanishkpuri1987]

@jacksolutions did you guys forked this project.I would love to work on it. It would be great help if you can
give us bug free code to start with new features like workflows in the applications.

[M4SSD35TRUCT10N]

Hello folks I've just forked the project. Head over to https://github.com/M4SSD35TRUCT10N/SimplexERP.
It'll take some time before I get it all up and running (still sorting out all errors and related stuff). I'm planning on doing most of the stuff related to the project on GitHub (pages, wiki, issues and project management). Feel free to join me there.

WARNING
This does not mean by any circumstances that all of it will happen in the next weeks/days/hours. I'm planning to get it up & running in the end of september (full rare spare time project)!

[NhSolutions]

Hey Folks we have been working on this project to run this project successfully, its been a more then
a one month my developer is working on it to run project successfully and then we can move forward. @jacksolutions did you guys able to run this project.
@kanishkpuri1987 we are working on it anyone interested in this please contact me on nhsolutions.pvt@gmail.com