On Jan 20, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: > Two new projects were started - OpenTaps and Moqui. > > Speaking personally (and I stress personally - I'm not speaking on behalf of > the OFBiz community) that sort of thing is counter-productive. I know the > authors of both of those projects and I consider them friends. I'm also very > familiar with the projects themselves. > > It's easy to just scrap existing code (or an established community) in > frustration and start another project. It's hard to find a migration path > that continues to embrace new technologies without causing undue hardship on > the existing installed base. > > It would be better if we could find a middle ground - a compromise - that > keeps the talent and innovation in a single project, instead of scattering it > into competing projects.
Do you really think that is the best idea? Isn't one of the problems with OFBiz that everything is in one big pot, but not all users want the same thing, and so there are constant fights about what should go into the single pot? Maybe it would be better if there were a stable framework and a bunch of separate "pots" sitting on top of it that address different audiences and are driven by different groups with different needs/wants? That would apply to different themes, different UIs, different business domains, etc. -David
