> If this were the only factor I would release those materials under the
> Apache license right away.
Agreed. I would've put full muscle behind writing down what I learned about OFBiz. I kinda gave up
after dishing out detailed explanations of form/screen widget entities and seeing... zilch in return.
> 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.
Agreed.
Currently, I'm unable to contribute myself due to time constraints (or mad rush for business
profit?). After I'm done with my project, I may examine myself and find out why I can/cannot
contribute back actively to OFBiz. At least start studying the phenomenon 1 case at a time,
starting with myself.
Jonathon
David E. Jones wrote:
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
