@David: You asked me about my personal motivation, so here it is: I honestly believe that, even though OFBiz has a market at this moment, it isn’t growing at the pace it would need to sustain itself for a long while. That isn’t a problem of the software itself, the architecture is great and the quality is astounding. In order to keep up with competition it will have to go through various changes in the near future, however. For all this we would require a growing community with more active committers – the current state is, however, a declining one. With the current outset, I would give OFBiz 3-5 more years until either the community has decided to opt out of further commitment, or people have moved on to other frameworks entirely. I love OFBiz, but it is this that I fear the most. Underneath it all, I have learnt that the OFBiz community isn’t a particularly friendly one. This wouldn’t be a problem if the documentation was up to such a level that you wouldn’t rely on the community, but that is, unfortunately, not the case. Understandably, the problem goes full circle – it requires a strong community to either work with new members, or create the necessary documentation to get people started, but we have to begin somewhere. That’s why I brought it up earlier in the message list. I am not aiming for further personal involvement or even as far as a PMC membership (I honestly wouldn’t even know if I had the time to commit to this). I do, however, fear that my original two points “Not enough recognition for contributors”, “static PMC members” are the real dangers here and thus far I haven’t received a single word back on this. With the experience on how such a harmless thread even went down – and how Pierre was also assaulted, I would unfortunately, argue that there lies some truth in what I said. I do encourage, or hope, however, that the PMC will eventually find ways to change some of their behavior (mainly: give structure and support, encourage participation).
How the PMC relies on HWM employees wasn’t even on my original list – just an added afterthought or possible explanation to its stagnating form. -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/The-future-of-OFBiz-Open-Discussion-tp4648865p4649500.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
