From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[email protected]> > On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >> I must say I don't. The Neogia team is. And they are an important part of >> the OFBiz ecosystem. Their efforts should not be neglected. Erwan is no >> longer part of the Neogia team but he is still in contact with them. At >> least AFAIK... > > This is an interesting point: the Neogia team (company? community?) is > important as any other contributor; however they are a separate ecosystem > that a long time ago decided to split from OFBiz and develop their own > software, best practices, tools etc.. at the point that now the OFBiz > community and the Neogia community may have choosen quite different tools and > best practices; of course the members of the Neogia team think that what they > do is the right way and the same happens to the members of the OFBiz > community; if the Neogia community now wants to share some of their tools or > best practices they can offer them, but we, as the OFBiz community, should > not feel any pressure to endorse them; and the fact that all the members of > the Neogia team agree that the tools are important is irrelevant (of course > they do, if not they would have changed them).
Neogia has a community (though not quite clear to me), backed by a company: Nereides. But I think you already know that Jacopo. Neogia team is now working for years with their addons system based on the OFBiz trunk. So they are not so far as when they splitted initially. I believe their addons feature is the right tool to go with Apache OFBiz Extras. For the best practices it's another story and shoud be driven by common sense For the web driver it seems interesting to me, but not as the same level than the addons system And no, I never feel any pressure (I'm still an independent worker), just want OFBiz to be as alive as possible > > All that said, I want to clarify that I am not feeling any pressure and no > one at Neogia tried to put pressure on me so I am good and I appreciate their > efforts in sharing with us what they are doing; in the same time I will not > feel bad if I don't think they are a good fit for the OFBiz project (and the > fact that I, or we, and them could be in disagreement on some topics is > quite natural as we come from two different ecosystems that voluntarily > separated from each other). Sure but what is refraining you for web driver? More that you feel there is no needs than code quality, right? So you will see it more in Extras? What others think about it? Are you interested? Jacques > > Kind regards, > > Jacopo
