On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:
But you could be right. IMHO, the lack of clear OFBiz framework references (not videos that are unsearchable) may be hindering the explosive growth of the OFBiz-enabled engineer population. Also IMHO, an explosion in the number of OFBiz-enabled engineers will likely feed back into OFBiz very rapidly. And further IMHO, David Jones (creator of OFBiz) will then probably have a whole army of willing volunteers to choose from (many open source projects employ ULTRA STRINGENT qualifying criteria to screen volunteers before making them committers; you do get many top brains in open source projects, so good that you/I probably can't ever argue with those).And finally, IMHO, I could be entirely wrong in above paragraph. I am not David Jones; I never created an open source project myself.
If this were the only factor I would release those materials under the Apache license right away.
As far as causality goes, knowing about OFBiz is a "necessary" cause for contribution, but not a "sufficient" cause. If knowing about OFBiz was a sufficient cause for heavy involvement in contributing to OFBiz, we would have at least twenty to thirty active (ie daily) committers, and we would probably go through easily 100 Jira issues a week from outside contributors.
For an excellent thesis on causality, I recommend "Causality and Chance in Modern Physics" by David Bohm and Louis De Broglie, especially the first few chapters which apply to a good deal other than just physics (though of course honest physics involves a great deal of real life so very little imagination is required to bridge the gap). Actually, that book is more of a philosophy of science book than a book about the results of science.
-David
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