Over the past two years we started on several paths to make OFBiz better. We started with several refactoring endeavours, we initiated a new way of documenting, etc.
But what strategic choices would benefit the project too? - would opening up our repos more to git (GitHub) help us attract more contributors? Over the years we have had several discussions whether or not we would the git way-of-working, but it always was internally oriented, not considering the potential for furthering the project (adoption/contribution wise). - would splitting up the combined web-apps (like marketing and sfa) into separate components offer more choice to our potential adopters and contributors (to work on)? - would disentanglement of 3rd party integrations (fintech and logistic) and the several themes into separate components offer more choice to our potential adopters and contributors? Several integrations are outdated or even haven't delivered on the promise at all (consider the iDEAL fintech integration), nor did they gather outside traction, leading to more contributors/improvements - would the project not benefit from an approach followed by the Apache Commons project (each component a separate repo)? What are your thoughts? Best regards, Pierre Smits *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer *Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without privileges) since 2008* Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer
