One thing that is important to remember is that there is a difference
between real obstacles to innovation and imagined ones.
David expressed frustration with the inability to innovate due to push
back from a few people who insist on backward compatibility. That is a
real obstacle. I am hopeful my appeal to compromise will help us get
past that one.
He is also nostalgic about the "good old days" when a handful of
committers were free to make any changes they wanted with little or no
discussion, or any consideration of the impact those changes would
have on the user base. He sees discussion, planning, and finding a
consensus as an obstacle to innovation. That obstacle is imagined.
Like I said in a previous reply, there is nothing prohibiting David
from innovating in OFBiz - his ideas have been discussed before and we
all seemed to agree that they would be good things to do.
David's decision to give up on participating in this community has
nothing to do with a failure on the PMCs part.
-Adrian
Quoting Jacopo Cappellato <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com>:
The primary goal of the PMC, and the community in general, should be
that of creating the perfect environment to facilitate contributions
from people like David, and limit/review/improve the contributions
from other less blessed contributors: it seems like all our efforts
are obtaining the exact opposite result.
