One more thing: I did not "give up on participating in this community". I never said I was, nor do I think my behavior related to this community has demonstrated any such things.
I just started another project. -David On Jan 27, 2011, at 8:22 AM, adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com wrote: > One thing that is important to remember is that there is a difference between > real obstacles to innovation and imagined ones. > > David expressed frustration with the inability to innovate due to push back > from a few people who insist on backward compatibility. That is a real > obstacle. I am hopeful my appeal to compromise will help us get past that one. > > He is also nostalgic about the "good old days" when a handful of committers > were free to make any changes they wanted with little or no discussion, or > any consideration of the impact those changes would have on the user base. He > sees discussion, planning, and finding a consensus as an obstacle to > innovation. That obstacle is imagined. > > Like I said in a previous reply, there is nothing prohibiting David from > innovating in OFBiz - his ideas have been discussed before and we all seemed > to agree that they would be good things to do. > > David's decision to give up on participating in this community has nothing to > do with a failure on the PMCs part. > > -Adrian > > Quoting Jacopo Cappellato <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com>: >> The primary goal of the PMC, and the community in general, should be that of >> creating the perfect environment to facilitate contributions from people >> like David, and limit/review/improve the contributions from other less >> blessed contributors: it seems like all our efforts are obtaining the exact >> opposite result. > >
