I wonder how that would work. At some moment in time a two track approach is more taxing than a one track. In the past we had commit wars, with this (two long term tracks) we get that again at a whole different (higher level).
To be a bit sarcastic here: there are also other Business Solutions frameworks in other Apache projects (e.g. Wicket, Cordova, others). Why don't we also reach out to those and bind them under the OFBiz ring. Choices need to be made. You can't have it both ways. The same goes with moving forward vs backward compatibility. Nevertheless, incorporating/embedding another framework is a long term effort. That effort should definitely start/evolve in a separate branch. But the decision whether to or not to starts needs to be made before that. Nevertheless, there are also the concerns expressed earlier by Adrian. We should not cast those aside without proper consideration. Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Ron Wheeler < [email protected]> wrote: > On 20/04/2015 3:57 PM, Nicolas Malin wrote: > >> Le 20/04/2015 21:48, Ron Wheeler a écrit : >> >>> >>> Would not have to call of Apache Moqui. It would just be Moqui , part of >>> Apache OfBiz >>> >> Ron, in other word, you propose to fork Moqui into Apache OFBiz ? >> >> Nicolas >> >> I am not proposing anything. > I am pointing out that > 1) there are ways to get the Moqui project into a community that will use > it as the basis of things that it wants > 2) Apache has a history of projects that kept their identity as a separate > deliverable from the other products in the same Apache TLP. > 3) Apache will then become the defender of the IP. > > It is really up to David and the PMC to see if this solves a sufficient > number of problems to make this a viable solution. > > As others have pointed out, there are downsides to switching frameworks > and the OFBiz community is going to have to be willing to support 2 > frameworks and possibly 2 versions of many components for some time. > > If the long-term goal is to offer an OFBiz with Moqui as its base, it > would be a good idea to setup Moqui as an OFBiz sub-project sooner rather > than later and give David the support and legal protection that he seems to > be looking for while we start the process of rewritting OFBiz to support > both frameworks. This would ensure that Moqui is supported and is available > under an Apache license which will make it much easier to include in OFBiz > when and if that happens. It would also give David a chance to build a team > of supporters without having to deal with all of Apache's requirements > except as part of OFBiz. > If Moqui is never used as the framework for the ERP , it would still fit > in as a framework alternative for the OFBiz framework and both could be > marketed under the OFBiz trademark. > > Ron > > > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: [email protected] > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > >
