Hmm… This is all starting to make sense now.
First they jack up the pricing for the cloud services:
Then they stop supporting the Easy Install method of setting up a system so that new users that cannot get through the huge learning curve of containerization installs will be forced to use the expensive cloud subscription services.
So now the message is clear…
“Newbies are not longer welcome. We only want advanced users so that we might get more contribution to the code base from them.”
That does not sound very inviting to new ERP system adopters.
Might you at least decided to support maybe just one distro like Debian because it is so slow to change it’s own releases. At least that would buy the user base some time to either hire people to help them with container type installs, or find a better solution. Being stuck with the only reliable install process to be using a containerized package leaves out the ability to easily even get other developers to work out adding new apps or even code features.
Since most of them come from people like me paying outside contractors to develop additional pieces to ERPNext, the I guess you have now crimped off that resource as well.
You guys could have planned this a bit better. This is just sad.
BKM
**EDIT - 08/31/2021 (13 days after original post) Please be aware this “may” not be the final word on simple install methods. As you can see further down this thread, @revant_one has offered to help me understand Docker containerized installs so that I might be able to write up a tutorial for them geared to the newest of ERPNext users and adopters. I have already spent some time researching how Docker works and all of the pros/cons to doing installs this way. I may be able to do this after all. Know that I am spending any free minutes I have between projects to learn all of this myself. Once I have it figured out, I will try a tutorial and we can see how it plays out for all the new users. In past tutorials I have gone to great lengths to explain every step along the way so the users that follow the instructions get a little bit of education on “why” a given step is done. This may not be possible with the Docker installs based on my current reading of the documentation. There are many complexities in Docker configurations that are not easy to explain (but generally easy to follow the steps). I am not accustomed to writing about something that I do not fully understand, but at this point I am more interested in getting something useful out to users and for myself. Still working on it. Patience is a virtue. Thanks. BKM