--- David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some ideas like a sandbox that is somehow maintained > and yet never > considered by anyone as a "supported" part of OFBiz > and having lots > of parallel code and such are interesting, but > require a level of > resources that I would shocked near to death to see. > Realistically it > just hasn't happened before, ever. >
These efforts have largely failed in the past because of several reasons, with two in particular. 1) Scope of implementation was too large. If you're referring to the "specialized" components, they were entire applications that didn't really appeal to many deployments. A sandbox is meant to show off a particular feature or approach. Very similar to a JIRA issue except allowed to benefit from an SVN and some structure. When the demonstrated functionality has matured it should be ported back into the main components and removed from the sandbox. Sandbox applications should have a shelf life. 2) There wasn't a critical mass involved in the community that felt they could manipulate OFBiz at will as there are today. I'd be happy to maintain this outside of OFBiz (and will if it won't be maintained in OFBiz), but I think it would have a greater chance of success inside OFBiz being able to benefit from JIRA and the mailing lists.
