Hi all, Thank you all for the +1s, and thank you Jacopo for the background on the plugin. The bi plugin is now removed from trunk under OFBIZ-13764 ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13764), merged in https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-plugins/pull/484 and https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/pull/2479.
I agree with your broader point about experimental features and will start a separate thread for it. Thanks, Mridul Pathak On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM Devanshu Vyas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Mridul, > > +1 for this effort. > > Thanks & Regards, > Devanshu Vyas. > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 3:26 PM Ratnesh Upadhyay < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > +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 > > >
