On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: > I like the idea of working with the current community to get a consensus on > these things and then loosely enforcing them. I keep holding out hope that > the desire to produce a quality product will increase. > > I understand your viewpoint of just starting over with new code and new > community members. At first glance that seems attractive. But it seems to me > that's like curing cancer by executing the patient.
No, I don't think you do understand it. The last time you represented "my" viewpoint this way I responded with how what you described was different. I'll do it again here. My goal is not to get rid of the community, my goal is to split the community to various sub-communities involved in different projects which make up an ecosystem of projects based on the same framework and data model, as opposed to a single project for everything. This will reduce conflict and encourage people to try different ideas with end-users in the position to choose between them based on what works best for them. A distributed community, as opposed to a centralized community, would allow many more people to get involved with much less conflict than our current rather small community. The point is not to exclude people or get rid of a community, the point is to enable more people to get involved and move it more towards a "free market" structure as opposed to the current "central planning" type of structure that OFBiz operates under. -David
