Hi ,
Nice that ofbiz is graduating. I will love to see it integrated with Apache
components.
(1) ServiceMix
(2) XAL
The main reason for such request is partly "Internal Marketing " of ofbiz.
To convinue huge developement teams say size of 100, if product has 10
unknown/not much components like freemarker etc, it takes a lot to convince
them to use the same.
Instead if you say , look buddies it is same as your last project . it has
struts ; spring etc. people accept it immediately. Otherwise to train 100
developers is gigantic step for organization and people say we will develop
new product in that time.
Chand
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From: "David Welton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "ASF PRC Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Rich Bowen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
"david reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: OFBiz Graduation
Hi, with the pending graduation of OFBiz, there is some enthusiasm for
talking it up. I've CC'ed the PRC, which is the group in Apache
responsible for communications/PR sorts of things in order to see if
they have any advice, since they have a few people who are
professionals in that field, and volunteer some of their time with
Apache.
Jacopo correctly notes that the graduation hasn't actually occurred
yet, but I still think that some amount of noise wouldn't hurt. PR
dudes, what do you think: a bit of noise now, more when the top level
project is created and visible, and more when a release is cut, or
more of a big-bang approach?
However, I think it would also be a good idea to "manage
expectations", as they say - OFBiz's code hasn't really changed from
one day to the next, this is mostly an organizational milestone, so
I'm not sure I would push the message of "go try OFBiz now".
Perhaps Si's suggestion that simply writing about it on blogs is about
the right level of "noise" at this point in time. Another avenue
might be to talk with the feathercast (http://feathercast.org/) folks,
who I have CC'ed as well, depending on their schedule.
In any case, it's certainly noteworthy, and a lot of credit goes to
the OFBiz guys for all the work they have done to make this happen.
--
David N. Welton
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Linux, Open Source Consulting
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