Hello, As of today, I am resigning from my PMC and Committer role.
My initial involvement with OFBiz started in April 2018 as an internship in the Néréide team to work on the support RESTful Web APIs. While working on that topic I discovered soon enough that this objective would take a very long time to achieve because of the huge technical debt that has grown over time in the framework internals. Moreover I have observed that my colleagues were swamped in the accidental complexity of OFBiz (polyglot programming model, cumbersome DSLs, weak typing, ...) which is impacting negatively their ability to deliver value to their client. Following those observations, I have spent a huge amount of my time (including my weekends) trying to understand, remove, refactor existing code to improve OFBiz simplicity which is a pre-requisite for staying relevant in the future. The recent events/discussions lead me to the conclusion that my efforts towards the goal of simplifying OFBiz will simply not be able to succeed due of the required slow review process and the global lack of interest/consensus on that topic. As a consequence I am unable to continue to participate positively in this community anymore. Kind regards, -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
