I do not think OFBiz fork would be a best think to do in the interest f
community. However, idea of a next generation OFBiz (OFBiz-NG) keep
coming to mind. That was the one of the reason I worked on OFBiz-OSGi
integration. OFBiz with a micro kernel based on OFBiz and then other
building blocks such as Entity Engine, Service Engine, deployed as
pluggable bundles and then who knows some time in the future OFBiz-NG
gains focus of the community. This is how Firefox (the lean and thin)
has evolved form Mozilla (the beast).
Raj
Michael Xu (xudong) wrote:
hi Ruth,
I do agree with you that it is time for a fork in the road. But before that,
maybe it is better to split ofbiz into subprojects, like framework, BI, etc.
Then we can choose where to fork. And also the future merge should be
easier.
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Ruth Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Chris:
IMHO: Having watched the project for a long time now, I think it is time
for a fork in the road. There are too many competing interests here. This
sort of reminds me of Unix before AT& T let BSD birth. No? And look what
that spawned :-)
Ruth
Christopher Snow wrote:
Thanks BJ - that's the conclusion I'm starting to reach.
Perhaps it would be worth some of us like minded people to getting
together?
BJ Freeman wrote:
I had the same complaint at one time.
I now keep my own version under a different brand name.
That is about all you can do.
Christopher Snow sent the following on 11/13/2009 2:40 AM:
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Christopher Snow wrote:
I was thinking about your comment of leaving the components in place
even though they are not used. Does leaving unused components in
place have a performance impact on ofbiz? Do those components
consume memory? - they are certainly using disk space. Some of the
components for example BIRT consume a fair amount of space.
Disk and memory are very cheap nowadays...
I think I have answered your other concerns in another email.
Jacopo
Disk and memory are cheap nowadays, but small businesses don't see it
like that, for example David Jones' ezBiz will be competing with
lightweight applications like OpenERP.
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.
