As I have been guilty of needing a jab in the ribs like this in the past...That's enough bickering.
Amongst the attitude/responsibility checking that has gone on in this thread there are only two questions that require responses. 1) Can we/is it necessary to determine a better plan of action for updating/purging stale 3rd party libraries? 2) What are the obstacles in attracting more patches/improvements and how can we get more non-commiter involvement in JIRA reviews? To the first question, my proposed solution would be to put a little effort into the example component for the various ways of accomplishing tasks with the tools/hooks available in OFBiz along with status notes. Followed up by adopting OFBiz technology standards and then limiting OFBiz solutions using those technologies in the community project (ie possibly eliminating the usage of beanshell scripts entirely in favor of minilang). What this accomplishes is reducing the number of 3rd party libraries that are show stoppers to maintain, especially considering this thread is based on two technologies that OFBiz has preferred approaches for. I'd like to hear other's opinions for the second.
