Re: OFBiz in Canada?

[Scott Gray]

On 14/11/2009, at 12:32 AM, Christopher Snow wrote:

Scott,

I agree that the community changes ofbiz by committing. And as a non-committer and just and end user, all I have is a voice.

Time spent in the community and contributions made is what determines how loud a voice is.

I just found the arguments against the proposal to be unfounded and not in the best interests of the ofbiz project. For example, the comment about disk space and memory being cheap can't be serious - there aren't many examples of monolithic software anymore.

special purpose components can be removed as you please, the application components are fairly interdependent and the reality is that they could not easily be modularized. The memory consumption and disk space usage of 3 components vs. 6 components is negligible.

I think rather than hearing just objections, I would have preferred to have heard a response along the lines of:

"the idea sounds interesting and warrants more investigation - please feel free to put a design or prototype together".

Regards
Scott

I'm sorry you didn't get the response you were looking for, my opinion is that the idea doesn't sound all that interesting but you don't need my permission to put a design or prototype together.

Scott Gray wrote:

Chris,



Regards
Scott

On 13/11/2009, at 11:53 PM, Christopher Snow wrote:

Very few things are ever not an option, but just because someone turns up on the mailing list out of nowhere and proposes something vague doesn't mean that it is suddenly a valid idea that everyone should take seriously. OFBiz like every other apache project is a meritocracy, the people in "control" are the people who actually get things done for the project.

Also, there's the security issues of having code running that isn't required.

Anyway, I get the picture. A modular ofbiz is not an option! People in control like ofbiz just the way it is - it suits their business model.

No, you didn't get the picture, at all.

And I am not in control of OFBiz...

Jacopo

Please read the messages carefully and try to understand them before attributing to others concepts that they don't expressed.

Great, so a modular ofbiz IS an option?

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