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Re: Open Source Alternative To

#64
Anyone here managed to like Odoo? It's the first ERP system I work with and the experience is sobering so far.

- no useful documentation aka read the code bro, it's open source

- "FIXME don't ever do this" comments all over the code base

- no update routine: download source of enterprise edition, patch your private repo, feed it in your CD/CI. I'm pretty sure vulnerabilities get patched quickly all over the world ;)

- weird design decisions like undocumented semantics for identifiers (variables, module names etc.)

- Python/JS/XML code living in the database (i.e. need the production DB to develop/test)

- performance

- addons needed for serious business use cases are not open source

- code quality of third party addons is a nightmare

Maybe this is still harmless compared to its competitors, I don't know...

Re: Open Source Alternative To

#65
post #64

Anyone here managed to like Odoo? It's the first ERP system I work with and the experience is sobering so far. - no useful documentation aka read the code bro, it's open source - "FIXME don't ever do this" comments all over the code base - no update routine: download source of enterprise edition, patch your private repo, feed it in your CD/CI. I'm pretty sure vulnerabilities get patched quickly all over the world ;)…

Having XML/JSON stored in DB is pretty common actually (sometimes you need to store same/related info with different "schemas").

Storing Python and JS.....WTF?

Re: Open Source Alternative To

#67
Sentry is among these products that are open-source but hardly self-hostable.

I mean, unless you fancy an Ops team to run your error reporting. But generally speaking, unless you have extreme privacy concerns, the economics favor SaaS subscriptions.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

#68
I'm not sure how it works at first glance. OK, let's search for "Word". I'd assume LibreOffice and the like would come up - but instead, I get "WooCommerce" and "Wordle Global, Open Source Alternative to Wordle".

I understand apparently this is not how the page is supposed to be used - but isn't it how an average user would use a service named "opensourcealternative.to"? What am I missing?

Re: Open Source Alternative To

#69

I have also been building something similar at https://ossdatabase.com Recently released code under AGPL-3.( https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase ) But I want to go beyond aggregation and add following things - User reviews, ratings - Researcherd guides comparing features in most common usecases - Interviews with Opensource maintainers, founders. - Being able to create collections like awesome lists - Everything…

You might want to add some tags to the Vaultwarden entry - I was just in the process of submitting it because it wasn't tagged under password managers, when I stumbled across it by accident when looking for the original Bitwarden entry.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

#70
post #64

Anyone here managed to like Odoo? It's the first ERP system I work with and the experience is sobering so far. - no useful documentation aka read the code bro, it's open source - "FIXME don't ever do this" comments all over the code base - no update routine: download source of enterprise edition, patch your private repo, feed it in your CD/CI. I'm pretty sure vulnerabilities get patched quickly all over the world ;)…

Having XML/JSON stored in DB is pretty common actually (sometimes you need to store same/related info with different "schemas"). Storing Python and JS.....WTF?

Such systems are usually divided into platform and customization, so that customization can be tweaked without reinstalling the whole thing.
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