+1

Happy to help, Mridul.

Regards,
Ratnesh Upadhyay | www.hotwaxsystems.com

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 at 13:21, Mridul Pathak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Following the BIRT thread, I would like to propose removing the bi plugin
> (plugins/bi) from trunk as well. In 2014 we agreed that it should be
> disabled by default, but it has stayed enabled, so in a default setup it
> creates the OLAP tables and registers ECAs on the core createProduct,
> updateProduct, setInvoiceStatus, setOrderStatus and changeOrderItemStatus
> services, although nothing is loaded until someone runs Quick Init
> DataWarehouse by hand. In my experience, populating a warehouse through
> ECAs on core flows has never scaled in production, and deployments end up
> disabling it. The date range that init works from (bi.properties) ended on
> 1 September 2026.
>
> It is also still at proof-of-concept level. The 2020 effort to make it
> usable (OFBIZ-11414, pull request #11 with 100 commits) was closed without
> being merged in March 2024, and nothing suggests it is being exercised: the
> regressions in its fact-loading services that we found during the
> minilang-to-Groovy audit (OFBIZ-13536) had gone unnoticed. Its only
> consumers, the BIRT reports and the order report events that read its star
> schemas, are going away with BIRT.
>
> If there are no objections, I will file a JIRA and open a pull request.
>
> Thanks,
> Mridul Pathak

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